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What Parts are Least Laggy? (or most laggy)

8,595 0ut16w  7 months ago

Im trying to build a BIG ship, like ~1000ft wingspan.
I have tried to use the least amount of parts of ~600, game can't even save the darn thing.

I downloaded another build with ~1200 parts of similar size, and it ran and saved just fine.

I was using formation lights as building details, and thought it might be a laggier part compared to others. This is just a hypothesis, and the solution to my problem is still not found. But what are some parts I can build with that causes less lag?

And no its not because of my pc, simpleplanes refuses to use more than 10% of my cpu even when the craft is complex which is very strange and frustrating.

So, what parts do you think causes too much lag?

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    It could be the Drag that is causing the lag,
    my battleship has lesser (almost) no drag points on which it significantly improves my FPS

    +1 7 months ago
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    35.8k Speedhunter

    @0ut16w Ah.... That's a difficult situation, since high drag is the main contribution for lag, the parts will only Start lagging around 800 ish (depending on device, but on midrange phones, ~800 parts on no drag seems to be the lagging point on medium or low physics)

    +1 7 months ago
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    8,595 0ut16w

    @Speedhunter it has 966 parts, ~1000 drag when not scaled up
    but 37000 drag when scaled up

    7 months ago
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    35.8k Speedhunter

    How many parts is the carrier at? And does it have an absurdly high amount of drag points?

    +1 7 months ago
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    52.3k Majakalona

    it's the blasto
    the uhhh
    The one that was on the wasp
    and hellkeska
    the fighter jet one

    7 months ago
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    36.9k Graingy

    @Majakalona Your new pfp is killing me

    +1 7 months ago
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    52.3k Majakalona

    Dunno
    I'm gonna try and find the most performance expensive part
    then make something out of it (or with a lot of it)

    +1 7 months ago
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    8,595 0ut16w

    @Nerfaddict roger that.

    +1 7 months ago
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    30.0k Nerfaddict

    @0ut16w also I have a fair amount of experience building massive creations (like 40+km)
    MAKE SURE THERE'S NO DRAG WHATSOEVER

    +3 7 months ago
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    8,595 0ut16w

    @SILVERPANZER YOUR A SAVIOUR!!!!!!!! It must have been the modded miniguns! Im gonna reduce their numbers. Thanks again for your advice!

    7 months ago
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    54.6k SILVERPANZER

    The number of drag points, build scale, funky trees and variables also affects performance.

    +2 7 months ago
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    54.6k SILVERPANZER

    1) XML modded Wing Gun / Minigun (If the numbers are too large, this will lead to the game crashing).
    2) Label Image (This is a label that uses spraster to have an image on it, which is why there are a lot of symbols).
    3) Free spin rotators and other free parts constantly influence the physics of the game.
    4-...) And then you need to look at the Performance Cost of an individual part.

    +1 7 months ago
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    8,595 0ut16w

    OMG i did it! sort of? my build takes like a whole minute to load

    7 months ago
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    8,595 0ut16w

    kinda frustrated that my aircraft carrier can only be the size of a small business jet HELP

    +1 7 months ago