Another episode involving running around and talking to people. This ended up being way longer than I wanted it to be and I didn't want to enter the titular area so late in the video, so I separated it into two parts. Hope nobody minds. Feel free to talk about what you think about the game in the comments, but please avoid spoilers for at least a month or so after this video is published, I know some of you played most/all of the demo and have a pretty good idea how it goes. I'd like to find out for myself. The game can be found on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/432350/ And the free version on Matt's web site: http://kupogames.com/public-beta/ More information, I guess: Discord (official): https://discordapp.com/invite/5gnkTvE Reddit (unofficial): https://www.reddit.com/r/ebf/ Music (Phyrnna): https://www.phyrnna.com/ #EpicBattleFantasy5 #EBF5 - - - - - That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Anyone wanna donate? https://tinyurl.com/DragoniteSpamSellsOut I do live streams sometimes! I haven't in a really long time though so I should probably remove this link. http://www.twitch.tv/dragonitespam Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV9o8OV6bKE

Reynard makes some lewd remarks to Cammile! - - - - - That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam I do live streams sometimes! http://www.twitch.tv/dragonitespam Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyq7zj1cMGE

This is the first video thumbnail for this game which hasn't featured a Wooloo. #PokemonSword #WoolooAppreciation - - - - - That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Anyone wanna donate? https://tinyurl.com/DragoniteSpamSellsOut Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQZY7BHCxY

Possibly the best and most dependable 3D optimization trick that you can do in GameMaker is combining many small 3D vertex buffers into a single large one. GML is a comparatively slow language, and if you can do less work to draw the same number of triangles and vertices you can mitigate the usual CPU bottleneck considerably. Here's how you can do that! With that said, this is not a one-size-fits-all solution: objects that you combine can't move around independently of each other, and they have to all use the same texture page. This means this trick is better for stationary objects such as trees or buildings or terrain, and less useful for mobile entities such as players or NPCs or monsters. I'll be running a lot of these tests on a Raspberry Pi. If you don't have one of those, don't worry; GameMaker games run pretty much the same on them as it does on a desktop PC. The only thing I'm going to be using it for is comparing performance on different devices, and using it to track down performance bottlenecks on weaker devices. In this case, you may notice that being smart about matrix use isn't quite as good about boosting performance as it is on my desktop computer, mainly because the Pi has a considerably weaker GPU and the matrix optimizations done here affect primarily the GML code that runs on the CPU. All the same, if game development on a Raspberry Pi is something that interests you, I've made a video on that: https://youtu.be/OH6LskFeD8Q Here's the repository where I'll be putting the demo code: https://github.com/DragoniteSpam-GameMaker-Tutorials/3DOptimizationDemos The changes made in this video are on the optimization-matrices branch. https://github.com/DragoniteSpam-GameMaker-Tutorials/3DOptimizationDemos/tree/optimization-batching 3D optimization playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrf_CJSA7fVU1tkjGVv5Sq2t The thumbnail icon is a combination of: optimization by IconPai from the Noun Project Time by libertetstudio from the Noun Project #GameMaker3D #GameMaker3DOptimization #GameMaker3DBatching - - - - - I've now made that Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wizardragon That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Transition / idle music is by my old friend Kamex: https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatGabite/about Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwsJN-ZPxY