This mod adds optimizations to DSP. Few optimizations are available currently, but more will be added in the future.
Dyson shells can be made with much fewer vertices than in the vanilla game. This can greatly reduce RAM and save file bloat, as well as help your framerate when a sphere is being rendered. In the dyson sphere editor, when a layer is selected you should see a box appear in the bottom-left side of your screen. This is for configuring the resolution of newly made shells in the selected layer. The button will regenerate all of the shells in the current layer with the given resolution.
The resolution is configured by specifying a sphere radius. Shell geometry will be generated such that the resolution of the geometry will match that of spheres of this radius. For example, if you have a 200km radius sphere layer and set the shell resolution radius of the layer to 4km, then newly made shells will have as few vertices as if you were making a 4km sphere layer. Since the number of vertices in a shell is proportional to its surface area which is proportional to the square of the radius, in this example setting the shell resolution radius to 4km reduces the number of vertices by a factor of 2500.
To aid your choice in setting the shell resolution radius, the expected number of vertices after regenerating the entire layer with the given radius is shown. The memory and save file cost for your shells will be proportional to the vertex count. The current best estimates for these costs are 84 bytes of memory and 42 bytes of save file space per vertex. Setting the value to anything under 10km tends to work well. The minimum value of 1m will result in only 1 vertex per shell, which will hide the shells and contribute almost nothing to RAM and save file costs.
Notes on performance:
This mod depends on DSPModSave. Make sure that you have the version under the CommonAPI name, rather than the old version released by crecheng. The old version has bugs, and may cause problems. The old version of the mod is marked as deprecated.
This mod is most likely not compatible with the Nebula Mod, however compatibility will be added in the future.
If you encounter any bugs or issues, then please contact me either on discord at Selsion#0769, or by raising an issue on the mod github page.
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