Paperdoll Server Performance?

[trollface]

Do the amount of Paper Doll files affect server performance when players are in the same area?

Does have One Sword Paper Doll between two players act the same in context to server performance as if I had 30 different weapon paper dolls between the two players?

[jcsnider]

Number of paperdolls won't hurt server performance any. 

 

Extra rendering on the client will always have some performance impact but it would be negligible.

[OniSensei]

30 minutes ago, trollface said:

Do the amount of Paper Doll files affect server performance when players are in the same area?

Does have One Sword Paper Doll between two players act the same in context to server performance as if I had 30 different weapon paper dolls between the two players?

So the paper dolls are loaded via the MonoContentManager.cs when the server is started via the LoadTextureGroup function. (I believe)
The client will load the paper doll a couple times;

• Entity box
• Character window
• On map
• etc

So as far as server performance you should be fine. I have heard that leafling has had up to about 150-200 players online at once and they use i think 5 paper dolls per character and since then there have been performance upgrades.

 

I'm not to sure what you mean by;
 

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Does have One Sword Paper Doll between two players act the same in context to server performance as if I had 30 different weapon paper dolls between the two players?

 

I want to say one sword paper doll between two players acts the same in context to server performance. Meaning since the server loads all the paper doll images at startup. I am confused by the last part though, 30 different weapon paper dolls between two players would mean each has 15 weapons equiped at once..?

[trollface]

In the paperdoll folder, there would be 30 weapon sheets. Each player has only one loaded, as opposed to 1 weapon sheet in the paperdoll folder and each player having one loaded.

[Cheshire]

7 hours ago, OniSensei said:

So the paper dolls are loaded via the MonoContentManager.cs when the server is started via the LoadTextureGroup function. (I believe)

 

This only counts for the client, the server doesn't load any resource that isn't a JSON file or database object.