DevLog 114: Remote Stands, Improved Aircraft Paths with New Taxiway Modules & Person Animation Performance

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@Olof

Testing has shown that by reducing the number of sprites we render and even using what is called sprite or texture swapping (meaning the traditional way to use a series of sprites to represent an animation), we can significantly increase the frames per seconds when rendering multiple, up to thousands, of persons. There are still many unclear details around this and we need more time to test and find the optimal solution for Airport CEO. However, it has become clear that we can save a lot of FPS by reducing the number of sprite renders and doing animations differently from what we do now, all while greatly improving the visual style of the persons through the magic touch of our artist Mitchell (Jettuh). We will let you know more on this in later devlogs once we know the way forward.

I like the sound of this. Very exciting. I know it’s all theoretical but opening avenues to increased performance should always be traversed.