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Currently I'm working on a universal mod with a leveling system for enemies, and part of that is attaching an item to them that keeps tracking of their XP. I noticed when I play on map 15 of the newest Sunder (which has almost 6000 enemies on it), however, the performance tanks by about 10 FPS. I thought it might be the DoEffect for some reason causing issues, so I disabled that part of the code. Code snippet:
override void DoEffect()
{
super.DoEffect();
currentHealth = owner.health; // UI interface stuff
if (currentXP >= nextLevelXP) // Only relevant when a player kills a far away enemy
{
currentXP = currentXP - nextLevelXP;
++level;
nextLevelXP *= 1.5;
maxHealth += ceil(baseHealth * 0.2);
XP = ceil(baseHealth*0.1 * level);
owner.mass += baseMass*0.2;
Shield es = Shield(owner.FindInventory("Shield"));
if (es)
{
double levelModifier = 1;
GlobalLevel gl = GlobalLevel.Get();
if (gl)
levelModifier += (gl.currentGlobalLevel - 1)*0.1;
es.rechargeRate = frandom(0.1, 0.2)*levelModifier;
es.maxShieldAmount = ceil(random(10, 25)*levelModifier);
es.shieldAmount = es.maxShieldAmount;
}
if (!dead)
owner.health = maxHealth;
}
if (dead && owner.health > 0) // Fix for Arch-vile revive not respecting leveled health
{
dead = false;
owner.health = maxHealth;
}
}
There was no difference in performance. There's also overridden BeginPlay, PostBeginPlay, OwnerDied, and ModifyDamage functions. I was wondering if these might have some impact on the performance while enemies are idling since most of the time they are only relevant in very specific circumstances. Not spawning the actor at all seems to be the only way to fix the performance. Obviously not a solution, but I'm wondering if this is a sheer numbers problem. Since map 15 of Sunder has almost 6000 enemies, and all of them need this item, it would make sense that when I look at the profiles the item comes out near the top at the amount of time needed to process. However, this might just be me misunderstanding another part of the item's code, and the solution might be fairly simple.
Is there anything I can do here? Or should I assume I've reached a limit with what the VM can do?
Use profilethinkers console command to profile the next tick. I guess you need something like profilethinkers -t 10, but you can try different options. The command will output a brief help info if run without arguments.
