DarkPlaces: handling massive entities

[JasonX]

How well can DarkPlaces handle a large amount of entities in a map? I've been curious if anyone run tests like this... 3000~5000 entities in a map, does it handle well?

[Spike]

like the 10k knights mod?
most engines can go up to 32k or so nowadays it seems.
just make sure your ai code isn't doing tracelines etc for every single one every frame.
and that they're not all visible all at once. that sort of thing hurts a bit too.

[frag.machine]

like the 10k knights mod?
most engines can go up to 32k or so nowadays it seems.
just make sure your ai code isn't doing tracelines etc for every single one every frame.
and that they're not all visible all at once. that sort of thing hurts a bit too.

Unfortunately the traceline stuff is kinda unavoidable, at least with conventional AI.
Some time ago I considered the possibility of implement a cache to traceline queries in order to save CPU cycles in such cases, but this goes beyond my current skills.