[VladR]

Attached you can find the output of the stats (I disabled skybox so we can read it easily) of the engine. I ran this at 640x480.

Numbers are in hexa (obviously) and show the clipped number of pixels per each tile (40 in total) in the order they are rendered (back to front, obviously).

Last number is the total number of pixels drawn : $12843 = 75,843 px

Notice the last 4 tiles (the front ones):

$13EC : 5,100
$2000 : 8,192
$37C8 : 14,280
$4000 : 16,384

These 4 tiles take 43,956px out of 75,843 = 58% !
Basically, front 10% of tiles take almost 60% of CPU power.

Now notice the last 8 tiles, each at $2E = 46px - we could have literally 300 of them and they would take less than the very first tile.


So, the count of tiles means nothing for performance - it's less than a drop in the bucket.


Now, let's see what's the impact of first 10 tiles: $11A66 = 72,294 -> 95%
So, for ~5% of performance, we can quadruple the tile count and visibility.

And we really need at least 10 tiles in the front for any remotely meaningful visibility.