0005190: Frontend optimizations due to connectedness of entities/surfaces

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005190	The Dark Mod	Coding	public	22.03.2020 02:27	22.11.2021 14:06

Reporter	stgatilov	Assigned To	stgatilov
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	TDM 2.08
Target Version	TDM 2.11

Summary	0005190: Frontend optimizations due to connectedness of entities/surfaces
Description	One of the inefficiencies of current frontend is that objects are often pushed into visleafs where they don't belong. This usually happens for sloped walls, when the object is completely indoors, but its bounding passes through the wall, so the entity is also considered to be outdoors. This results in excessive draw calls in such cases. The idea is to exploit connectedness property of an object to better determine which areas is belongs to. If the object bounds don't overlap any visportal, then the whole object belongs only to the area/visleaf where its test point (chosen arbitrarily) belongs to. Hopefully, it is possible to deduce connectedness of many objects automatically. However, spawnargs for forcing connectedness / disconnectedness are still necessary.
Additional Information	See discussion: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20224-arealock-keyword/&do=findComment&comment=444691
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
22.03.2020 02:27	stgatilov	New Issue
22.03.2020 02:27	stgatilov	Status	new => assigned
22.03.2020 02:27	stgatilov	Assigned To	=> stgatilov
05.12.2020 12:33	stgatilov	Target Version	TDM 2.09 => TDM 2.10
22.11.2021 14:06	stgatilov	Target Version	TDM 2.10 => TDM 2.11