So I finally tested the map and I gotta say this is one of the best if not the best RP map on Gmod right, who needs downtown when you have this little gem? But im afraid I have the same issue that a lot of people have right now, FPS. Now let me say, I don't have a super gaming PC, my PC is pretty normal and even if I have a lot of addons it runs great (100-120FPS on small maps and 50-70FPS on big ones like gm_fork), in this one the game runs just bad, I would say it runs between 15-20FPS and with a lot of FPS drops, I don't doubt you optimized it but I don't know, the game just runs awful, it doesn't runs that bad to the point it's unplayable it but it doesn't runs good, and I tested it on singleplayer. I don't wanna imagine how it would run on a server with a lot of players and with multiple addons. I don't know if you got planned an optimization patch (it would be a shame if you didn't since the map is amazing and you clearly put a lot of effort in it). Also, why you can close some doors and some others you have to wait till they close?
I really love it, so far, excelent.
(Here is some shitty sceneposing I made in it with some late 80s/early 90s vehicles like the ones that appear in Urban Chaos)
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/934964330405838731/C46FB55A944D0A12029DAA143C745A90BB5F5604/
You nailed it, really liked it. The map have already a retro aesthetic with those retro wallpapers in the apartments or the 80s computer in the police department.
I've only tested the map without any addons and it ran pretty well for me, so I can't really help you with that. There's not much else I can do to optimize the map except combine some models together to
reduce draw calls but even that wouldn't give a noticeable fps boost, or reduce the Far z radius but then you'd barely see in front of you.
Such a shame, I wonder why this particular map gives me FPS problems, I tested tons of maps and none of them gave me perfomance problems. Such a shame, I was pretty excited for this one. I guess I'll learn to get along with my 15FPS if I want to play it.
I love this map so much.
I was messing around with the map, and I noticed that a church is right across the street from a sex shop. Nice touch.
I know, I know, Make a joke about my comment guys. But with that aside, the map pretty unique and the shops and restaurants are prefect or posing and role play.
I know someone found an Easter egg involving a spooky cat graffiti , but somehow i found two of them.
Did anyone find more of these graffiti's ?
Tried Starting it, Garry's Mod Refused to Go past "Connecting to Local Server" Screen, I Have the HDR Enabled, I Have all the Mods I Need, All my Workshop Addons should've let this Load without Problems and Yet it Doesn't Load.
Still on the easter egg hunt with the cat graffiti. There are tons of them around the map but I've hit most. Still searching to see if there are any left. Press E on every cat you see!
I've found four of those wildcat graffiti so far. I swear to god if it is another porn room :excited:
I think I found the full easter egg? After you get finished pressing E on all the cats this phone should ring. Answer the phone and see what happens. I feel like the phone easter egg was separate from the cats but idk.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/175892/039997f2-57e3-49e9-8e65-318d771c3bc9/20190218155415_1.jpg
Found five cats and I can't for the hell of me find any other.
In the alleys to the left of the church
In the alleys facing the gun shop
Behind a bush facing one of the parking entrances
In the alleys with the basketball court on top of a ladder
On the roof of the building facing the laundromat
Mind giving a clue of where the rest are (spoiler tagged) ?
It might be much of an ask, but this map seems to crash SFM whenever you try and load it, is there any chance of a version for SFM? I think it may be related to entity count.
Sorry, I have no idea how to do that or what it requires, but I'll be releasing the .vmf when it seems clear that the map runs well enough for most people and there aren't any big issues left to fix
Like I say I think it's the amount of entities in the map, though I could be wrong. I'll tinker with it once you've released the VMF if that's cool by you. Maybe it just needs to be recompiled with SFM hammer.
Oooh, found all ten of them. You can hear a sound cue when you find the final one.
Oh. I see what happened. That's a pretty nice secret, even if it's not what some would expect in this thread alone.
Saw there is a new update that should improve the FPS. Gonna test it to see the changes.
I was testing the map and the fps differences were pretty minimal. But one friend told me to remove the sprites and the perfomance actually got better, maybe Fishke should low the sprites a little bit? There are like 600 in the map and removing them actually improve the fps a lot (I had like 16 and now I have 30 with some lag spikes), im not saying it should remove them just remove unecessary ones. Testing around the map and the scene of Spider got me a little inspired so I created this crappy scene
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/185884/698ddf04-7e3d-4916-afb6-cf5396245eda/Sin título.png
So @Fishke , do you plan on adding or editing something else of the map? Any info on new updates?
I noticed that most of the doors when opened will stay open until a certain amount of time. If you decide to update the map, do you think you'll be able to make those doors toggleable rather than be on a timer?
Yes, but nothing fps related
I could make it so that interior doors would behave that way and entrance doors to buildings would be left untouched
That means new buildings?! Cool!
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132645/65c1253f-9eb9-4885-9f86-adca1f84df15/poster-19-02-23 01-00-50.jpg
It's so f... great to make scenes!!!
Amazing work. Great attention to detail and beautiful atmosphere. Do you mind if I add your assets to my collection?
It's only roughly related to the map, but for some reason the guy that made AI nodes for this map decided to remove the addon for it from the workshop.
Did he get in contact with you about officially including his AI nodes in the map, or did he just decide to remove for no apparent reason?
Dude where you got those models? They look awesome.
Thank you. Go ahead and add them
He apparently decided to remove it from the workshop because it didn't work with the newest version
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