Algodoo

its sooo good

thanks my fan

Nice designing and coding but the scene is way too slow. The scene takes 30 seconds to load on my PC. Piece movement is too slow to be of much use. You might consider breaking the scene up into (2) scenes: (1) with chess instruction and customization and (1) with just the chess board and pieces. I don't know why Algodoo is considering 10142 narrow collision tests for this scene when everything is glued down.

P.S. Another option would be to replace the objects in the instructions with images and to provide sample tiles instead of sample boards. I tried this and now the scene loads in 2 seconds instead of 30 and the scene is very responsive.

delete parts

im waiting another scene oof

to S_Noonan: ok, I will consider that.

You are getting there. I'm seeing 15 seconds load time. You initially had:
2151 geometries
10142 narrow collision tests

You now have:
1665 geometries
7221 narrow collision tests

After modifying your scene, I had:
181 geometries
688 narrow collision tests

This is what I did:
Instructions above the main chess board that were not text were converted to images. Tiles and chess pieces below the main chess board were replaced with (24) distinct tiles and (12) distinct chess pieces.

I like your new chess pieces.

P.S. Another idea to reduce geometries and collisions would be to convert the chess boards into 1 box with 1 texture. That will replace 64 geometries and 210 collisions per board to 1 geometry and zero collisions per board.

P.P.S. If you take the white chess pieces and invert the colors on the transparent .png then you will end up with black pieces with white outlines.

to s_noonan: ok

does this make it better? Collision Layer: 0?

P.S. I make these components ready-made, like all of White's pieces are positioned, Black's is too, and as for the boards, they are full instead of part of them being shown.

I will add a response scene. Use what you need. Let me know when you have it and then I will delete my response scene.

Q: Does setting collideSet = 0 reduce lag.
A: No, for some reason Algodoo still does narrow collision tests.

Response scene has 105 geometries and 254 narrow collision tests.

Moving the Customization part to another scene.

Though I won't be posting it till tomorrow as my airplane scenes already make up 2/3 of my daily upload.

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