Hi there!
I am new here so I hope this is the right place to ask.
I have compiled the latest version (from day 478) and tried to run both win32_handmade.exe and win32_renderer_test.exe.
Unfortunately they both both of them were very heavy on my computer (a laptop with i7-750U cpu if it matters).
Could it be because I have no gpu? What can I do for it to run smoothly?
I am new here so I hope this is the right place to ask.
I have compiled the latest version (from day 478) and tried to run both win32_handmade.exe and win32_renderer_test.exe.
Unfortunately they both both of them were very heavy on my computer (a laptop with i7-750U cpu if it matters).
Could it be because I have no gpu? What can I do for it to run smoothly?
Edited by Bananaa6
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Reason: Initial post
You can use the profiler to determine what is taking time in HMH. At the moment the lighting is computed on the CPU with ComputeLightPropagation taking 80% of the frame time on my machine. F4 will stop computing the lighting, but everything will be black, so you also need to disable the lighting in the debug menu:
click on the white text at the top of the screen > renderer > RenderCommand->Settings.LightingDisable.
click on the white text at the top of the screen > renderer > RenderCommand->Settings.LightingDisable.
It looks like you either are missing the assets (.hha files in the data directory) or you haven't set the working directory properly.
If you are missing the .hha files you need to download the art pack (3 of them I think) from your sendowl link and use the "test asset builder" to build the .hha files. The problem is that in the last version of hmh the test asset builder doesn't compile (It's commented out in build.bat). So you would need to use an older version (Day 400 for example) and build the assets (the readme.txt file has some explanations). And since we have change the format you will need to convert the file to the new format using "hhaedit.exe -rewrite" (from day 478).
If you have the .hha files: if you are running from visual studio, in project > properties set the working directory to be the "handmade" directory (the parent directory of the "code" directory). The readme says that it should be "handmade/data" but it wont work if you set it to that. If you are running from a command line, just go to the handmade directory, and run the executable from there (somthing like "../build/win32_handmade.exe" ).
If you are missing the .hha files you need to download the art pack (3 of them I think) from your sendowl link and use the "test asset builder" to build the .hha files. The problem is that in the last version of hmh the test asset builder doesn't compile (It's commented out in build.bat). So you would need to use an older version (Day 400 for example) and build the assets (the readme.txt file has some explanations). And since we have change the format you will need to convert the file to the new format using "hhaedit.exe -rewrite" (from day 478).
If you have the .hha files: if you are running from visual studio, in project > properties set the working directory to be the "handmade" directory (the parent directory of the "code" directory). The readme says that it should be "handmade/data" but it wont work if you set it to that. If you are running from a command line, just go to the handmade directory, and run the executable from there (somthing like "../build/win32_handmade.exe" ).