Binary in JavaScript

Re:Binary in JavaScript by fishtastic on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @11:56PM (#9966074)

If the design of your roguelike limits player vision so they only see their surroundings, then instead of generating the 512 x 512 map in one go, you can improve the performance/memory usage by generating only the blocks around the player.

This would save a lot of initial loading time and could support maps much larger than 512 x 512.

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Re:Binary in JavaScript by seivan on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:15AM (#9966631)

Does this matter if your engine doesn't render stuff outside the viewport?

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Re:Binary in JavaScript by fishtastic on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:58PM (#9971856)

If your engine doesn't need to render objects outside the viewport, then you don't need to generate those objects until you actually need to render it.

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Re:Binary in JavaScript by seivan on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @08:27PM (#9972577)

Yeah I got that, but I was just wondering if thats where the performance hit is. Generating the map vs rendering outside visible area.

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