Performance

Производительность и способы оптимизаций необходимо учитывать при построении пользовательских карт.

Client Side Entities

Most entities in Source are networked and send their state to the server so clients don't fall out of sync with one another. To optimize this the "_clientside" entity type exists to reduce network traffic and is primarily used on cosmetic non-gameplay affecting entities.

A good example of this is all of the ambient creatures in Dota 2 are placed using the "prop_dynamic_clientside" entity. These do not send their state to the server. Each client may see them at different times, but they have no effect on gameplay.

If the entity's state was important to the gameplay a regular prop_dynamic should be used instead.

Размещение деревьев

Trees placed using ent_dota_tree create destructible trees that will snap to 64 grid increments to keep them aligned to the navigation grid. Placing numerous trees inside a 64x64 grid square will often have them snap to the same location, resulting in a number of trees overlapping in the exact same location. This is bad. A good way to avoid this is placing any "ent_dota_tree" on a minimum of a 64 grid square to keep the tree from ending up in an unexpected spot at run time.

Примечание:Tile Editor учитывает это автоматически и не позволит нескольким деревьям перекрывать друг-друга.

Оптимизация при детализации карт

Tile Editor позволяет создавать хорошо детализированные карты. Вполне возможно, что большое количество объектов, растений или деревьев в одной маленькой области на карте, может сильно затормозить работу слабых компьютеров. Следует это учитывать при создании карты.

Оптимизация освещения

When adding deferred point lights to custom maps be aware of overlapping a number of them will cause a hit to performance. A good tool to use when evaluating performance is "r_deferred_simple_light 2" which will display a point light's radius in game with some color information. If the color shifts to green as more and more lights overlap then there is a significant amount of overdraw caused by having a number of lights in the same space. Reduce the number of overlapping light radii to reduce overdraw.