Hey! If you're still having trouble with this, maybe the solution will be what I've implemented for myself. In the load_buffer_maps() function, I've implemented the option of saving static buffers to disk and loading them. My maps have a lot of models because they're quite classically modular platformers, each block is one model. Without static buffers, the game maintains 50-60 frames, but with static buffers it jumps to ~130. After creating a map, it doesn't modify it, so the option of saving buffers and loading them from disk when loading the map makes perfect sense. It could probably be further optimized or the buffers could be compressed to take up less space, but for now it works for me. When you want to load buffers using this method, all you have to do is create static buffers and delete the original models as you would when creating static buffers normally, and the rest will be done by the code I'm posting below. The path to buffers for me consists of the level name so that the game knows when to load which buffers and the buffer name. If you already have the code responsible for creating static buffers, the code I'm sending is ready to go, all you need to do is change the path to the files and create two variables: global.loadStaticBuffers and global.saveStaticBuffers. I hope I helped, and even if not, maybe if someone comes across this thread, they will find some usefulness in it :D
function load_buffer_maps()
{
if (!global.loadStaticBuffers)
{
// Load all buffer maps
for ( var i=ds_map_find_first(BUFFER_MAPS); !is_undefined(i); i = ds_map_find_next(BUFFER_MAPS, i) )
{
var b = BUFFER_MAPS[? i];
if ( !b.loaded )
{
// Load and write to buffers
var l = b.load_pos + b.load_chunk;
l = clamp(l, 0, ds_list_size(b.load_queue));
for ( var j = b.load_pos; j<l; j++ )
{
b.load_pos++;
var m = b.load_queue[| j];
__FauxtonWriteStaticSpriteStack( b.buffer, m[0], m[1], m[2], m[3], m[4], m[5], m[6], m[7], m[8], m[9]);
}
// Complete loading
if ( b.load_pos == ds_list_size(b.load_queue) )
{
show_debug_message("Buffer '"+string(i)+"': Succesfully Loaded! ");
b.loaded = true;
ds_list_destroy(b.load_queue);
if ( b.buffer < 0 ) { buffer_delete(b.buffer); b.buffer = -1; exit; }
b.vertex_buffer = vertex_create_buffer_from_buffer(b.buffer, SYSTEM_VERTEX_FORMAT);
if (global.saveStaticBuffers)
{
buffer_save(b.buffer, get_project_path() + "content/buffers/" + string("{0}_{1}.sav", o_debugController.gameLevelName, i));
}
buffer_delete(b.buffer);
vertex_freeze(b.vertex_buffer);
}
}
}
}
else
{
for ( var i=ds_map_find_first(BUFFER_MAPS); !is_undefined(i); i = ds_map_find_next(BUFFER_MAPS, i) )
{
var b = BUFFER_MAPS[? i];
if ( !b.loaded )
{
b.buffer = buffer_load(get_project_path() + "content/buffers/" + string("{0}_{1}.sav", o_debugController.gameLevelName, i));
b.loaded = true;
ds_list_destroy(b.load_queue);
if ( b.buffer < 0 ) { buffer_delete(b.buffer); b.buffer = -1; exit; }
b.vertex_buffer = vertex_create_buffer_from_buffer(b.buffer, SYSTEM_VERTEX_FORMAT);
buffer_delete(b.buffer);
vertex_freeze(b.vertex_buffer);
}
}
}
}