Fusion 2.5+ DLC Official pre and post-launch Thread

If it's allowed, can I ask for nested events - do the child events inherit object scope from the parent event?

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I hope so:) If ASD is in the team then you do not have to worry.

You guys are getting me all hot and steamy with these positive impressions. [MENTION=10509]SirEatAlot[/MENTION], what sort of performance problems were you having - just some framerate/memory struggles, or something more complex?

Exciting!

For me, android works better, performing well with the new architecture.
Also well improved because the ghost objects are fixed, which caused memory leaks for a couple android phones.

I need to zoom scene for my new game. It's sad that there is not zoom object or function for all platforms. As all of game engines have this.

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You guys are getting me all hot and steamy with these positive impressions. [MENTION=10509]SirEatAlot[/MENTION], what sort of performance problems were you having - just some framerate/memory struggles, or something more complex?

Exciting!

I was getting contstant frame rate drops with particle effects, projectiles and enemies all active on screen at once. Not too many either, just 5-10 enemies, some effects, etc. I have a goal of smooth 60 fps gameplay but the game would often drop down in the 40-30s and it was causing me all kinds of problems. Now I rarely go below 60, without any changes to the code. I'm still planning to optimize the game more just to be sure but it's really made thing much better.

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If it's allowed, can I ask for nested events - do the child events inherit object scope from the parent event?

As far as I can tell, this is the case, which is really amazing. So you can use child events to really drill down and select which instances you want to affect. Along with for each loops this is a really significant improvement to object scoping in fusion.

I agree with [MENTION=10509]SirEatAlot[/MENTION]
a lot of improvements on every front. The new features are awesome!
In General the program is a lot faster too with everything.

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So, does 2.5+ have an impact on all runtimes? :o

Asking again.

About sub-applications, did they gain any improvement?

Is there any work in relation to the way CF deals with multiple instances? My knowledge of programming is limited to microcontrollers, so I don't know if "Child Events" can mean anything ^^'

I am officially hyped.

Feedback sounds fantastic, i'm excited for sure.

I set back some money for this; hopefully it won't cost me more than my base fusion did X)

I really want to get my hands on this asap. Would love to start implementing nested conditions into my game

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I was getting contstant frame rate drops with particle effects, projectiles and enemies all active on screen at once. Not too many either, just 5-10 enemies, some effects, etc. I have a goal of smooth 60 fps gameplay but the game would often drop down in the 40-30s and it was causing me all kinds of problems. Now I rarely go below 60, without any changes to the code. I'm still planning to optimize the game more just to be sure but it's really made thing much better.

Are you running any shaders directly on those particles or other active objects? If so, try moving those to a separate layer and giving the layer that shader effect instead. I had the same exact problem and this solution fixed it right up.

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As promised new blog post giving a summary of how the profiler works posted today!

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Hey Kisguri, thanks a lot for the post:) can you elaborate a bit more what the three time-categories include in detail?

Object handling: Does this (just) include setting values, positions, scale/angle for actives or does it also track background/ tile handling? Where is the box 2d engine summarized/ included?
Events: Is this just "Conditions", or does it also include "Actions"? If it also includes actions, how does it differ from object handling?
Display: Is this render time? Does it include pixel shaders on individual objects and layers too?

I'm profiling O 10% E 40% and D 50% for Outbuddies in an enemy-heavy room on highest resolution.

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Our next blog post will be on March 5th and will discuss how to use the new Fusion 2.5+ child/sub-events and how they can benefit your projects.

Deadlines are a plus! Looking forward for child/sub-event publication.

"Event sheets"

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Are you running any shaders directly on those particles or other active objects? If so, try moving those to a separate layer and giving the layer that shader effect instead. I had the same exact problem and this solution fixed it right up.

Yes on some of them... hmm, thanks for the tip, will look into that!