[SOLVED]Really weird lag issue?[SOLVED]

[Eamonn]

I'm working on a game, but when I load in my map using ATL, I get really bad lag and the FPS drops down to like 15. I can't seem to figure out what's going on! If someone could help I'd appreciate that!

I know the game's idea might be terrible, but I've worked for over a week on it! I plan to add over 200 levels and release it when I have 30 levels done. I also plan to comment the code.

The player code was just code from Goature's platformer tutorial and modified by me. There might be some unused variables. I am also aware that I'm possibly using an older version of ATL. This is intentional.

So yeah, don't rage at me of there is inefficient code. It'll all be fixed when the game is released.

The reason I'm making games is to learn, and I'm learning how to use a camera in LÖVE and ATL for Tiled Maps.

Game: https://www.dropbox.com/s/06j0eh4mnwonbb7/NOM.love

Thanks! Any help is appreciated!

[IndieRetro]

Didn't look through the code but make sure you are not drawing the entire map all at once, you can use this to draw the map from a certain position

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Map:setDrawRange(x, y, w, h)
--Sets the draw range.

[Eamonn]

Didn't look through the code but make sure you are not drawing the entire map all at once, you can use this to draw the map from a certain position

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Map:setDrawRange(x, y, w, h)
--Sets the draw range.

Here's what I'm doing:

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lvl1:setDrawRange(0, 0, lvl1.width * lvl1.tileWidth, lvl1.height * lvl1.tileHeight)

I believe that's right!

[IndieRetro]

I think you are doing that wrong, you want something like (camera.x,camera.y,640,480), 640x480 being the draw distance from camera.x and camera.y

EDIT: Yep, you are doing it wrong, what you are doing is drawing the entire map all at once from 0x0 to the maps width and height, well a bit more actually o_O anywho change it to something like this.

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lvl1:setDrawRange(camera.x, camera.y, 640, 480)

[Eamonn]

I think you are doing that wrong, you want something like (camera.x,camera.y,640,480), 640x480 being the draw distance from camera.x and camera.y

I adjusted the 640 and 480 to 800 by 600 as that's the size of my window. I'll try to get the camera to move. But that fixed it for not! I guess the map was so big and I was drawing too much all at once! Thanks!

[IndieRetro]

No problem! if you are not using a camera or something you could always do it like this

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lvl1:setDrawRange(player.x-800/2, player.y-800/2, 800/2, 600/2)

[Eamonn]

No problem! if you are not using a camera or something you could always do it like this

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lvl1:setDrawRange(player.x-800/2, player.y-800/2, 800/2, 600/2)

I'll keep that in mind! Thanks!

A lot of the code in the player class I don't understand(because it was copied and I edited it) but it works.

[jasonisop]

also turning on spritbatching for me gave me a 400+ fps improvement.