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Lighting starting to get going, and no #godot logo! (No real artwork either, but hey).
Initial performance tests are encouraging though; given the spells are basically a very slowly interpreted language built of Godot nodes I was worried it would be unworkably slow and I'd need to start optimising early to get it workable. Turns out that even with dozens of spells flying around at a time it all still just works. #GameDev
@mavnn 🟧 from what I understand nothing is compiled at all, just run directly from definitions, which makes it relatively impressive
although generally the hard limit is number of nodes since I believe those don't optimise runtime at all and just run every node's logic every frame, minus events which are properly scheduled
@[email protected] I probably wasn't clear: the spells your character casts are a stack based programming language whose built in functions are implemented as nodes. So gdscript interpreting arrays of nodes as stacks of operations, sort of. Including quotations and subprocesses - sorry, subspells. It's very silly.
@mavnn 🟧 sounds silly and fun. mostly commenting on how afaik both gdscript and built-in logic in Godot are interpreted directly and there's no extra compilation step in the middle
might be JIT though, although assuming not
@[email protected] I think you're right, yes.
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