Increase draw distance

[Zarel]

Really? As I heard, it's written in C and C++, I'm right? maybe porting it to some other lighter one would make the whole thing more faster, trust me. I've seen ports from VB (yes, I know is crappy) to lua, and it really works faster.

C and C++ are some of the lowest-level languages there are - the only thing "lighter" than C in common usage is assembly, and that's slower because compilers have better C optimization. They're orders of magnitude faster than Lua.

And... what do you mean with "12-year-old's weekend project?"

I mean that Warzone is a major project with many skilled developers. Anything "simple" that can make the game faster has already been done - further improvements require a lot of work, or a lot of insight into how the code is written.

As for the programming language, it will remain in C and C++, for many reasons including that C is (arguably) the fastest language in existence. That's why a new programming language will often talk about being "25% as fast as C" or "50% as fast as C" or "90% as fast as C".

[Saberuneko]

Oh! Well... then I have nothing to complain, keep the good work.

And, sorry... I just don't know much C... I'm busy with some other ones at the moment.

[crux]

C and C++ are some of the lowest-level languages there are - the only thing "lighter" than C in common usage is assembly, and that's slower because compilers have better C optimization.

That isn't true, in most cases, assembly is faster than what the compiler can do but it isn't portable so people don't use it.

[Zarel]

That isn't true, in most cases, assembly is faster than what the compiler can do but it isn't portable so people don't use it.

Nope, in most cases, compilers are better: http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_TechDocs ... bate1.html

15 years ago (when that article was written) compiled C code was be faster than the assembly written by your average coder. Compilers have only gotten faster.

[Night_0wl]

Sorry to necro, and please disregard a lot of the discussion above as it seems to be borderline off topic, but with the start of the new year, would it be possible to add another request to increase the zoom distance?

It's quite possible that over the last years worth of builds that this has already done to some extent without my noticing, but I have been introducing (pushing) the game on a few friends and keep hearing the question if it's possible to zoom out further. After some thought, I concluded that it's something I wouldn't mind either.

Any economical, relatively pain minimal, way to make this happen? (Especially if it were possible to allow the user to define the draw/view/zoom distance in options to fit their hardware capability?)

TBH, I'd personally like to be able to zoom as far out as to see an entire 64x64 map if my hardware could run it and should I desire to do so.

[Per]

Zoom distance has been increased slightly in master. Increasing it even more than that makes the game look like crap, so I think we have hit an upper limit.

[Night_0wl]

Sounds good to me, thx.

(btw, on my machine i've noticed that when I do zoom out, all of the units, no matter what color, receive hue's of blue on various parts of the turrets typically but sometimes bodies and props. It doesn't bother me but just wondering if anyone else noticed that? Perhaps if we were to zoom out even further it would be one of the contributing factors to looking even worse as per mentioned?)