Vluzacn's ZHLT v34 Update

[Phantomas]

it uses the brightness level of the point directly underneath the player

Nope .


PS:
Vaqtincha want make shadows exactly as you say (Solokiller):

[FreeSlave]

2) The number of CPU threads cannot be automatically detected. The user should always specify '-threads #' through command line, otherwise it's default to 1 thread.

Besides sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) there's linux specific API (i.e. not available on other unices) that can give you the number of CPU: http://linux.die.net/man/3/cpu_isset

See how it can be used: https://bitbucket.org/FreeSlave/vhlt...hreads.cpp-564

[amckern]

Started a branch for AVX2, don't know enough about AVX2-512 - and don't have a CPU that supports it either - so AVX2 at the moment:

http://downloads.ammahls.com/zhlt/VHLT34_avx2_0.1.zip (64 Bit build only)

Control Map - bigcave2 (http://scmapdb.com/map:big-cave-2)

I would consider gains >5s are an improvement, as you can see the most build is 2 seconds slower then my original version, even though i have not changed any code. The CPP check build was based around an optimization recommendation in the vis.cpp file - it ended up not being much faster (at around 200 milliseconds)




Feedback and comments?

[amckern]

Please test brinks - this build had a lot of adjustments made within brink.cpp

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...07.03.2018.rar

[Hezus]

Please test brinks - this build had a lot of adjustments made within brink.cpp

Gave this build a shot but it seems it doesn't support maps on large grid scale. Got a whole bunch of errors like the one below, and then VIS and RAD crashed.

Warning: Entity 41 (classname "trigger_numericdisplay"): origin outside +/-4096: (-5024,-3080,264)

[amckern]

Warning: Entity 41 (classname "trigger_numericdisplay"): origin outside +/-4096: (-5024,-3080,264)

I used the source code found in the first post (v34): https://forums.svencoop.com/attachme...7&d=1439879328

Do you have trouble with it? If you compile it your self, and attempt to run a map compile do you have trouble as well?

[Hezus]

I'm using the custom build of V34 from the SC SDK (hlcsg v3.4-VL34-SC5.0 64-bit). I think this one includes the grid fix where the original VL34 doesn't.

[amckern]

I'll see if i can merge the fix with this build then

[AdamR]

This just makes me realise how old my Intel i7-920 is getting, even if it does run at 3.8 GHz instead of 2.67 GHz.

[Hezus]

You're going to need to ask someone else to test it for you, since I just realised that my i5-2500K doesn't support AVX2.

@AdamR: Somehow I feel that CPU's don't age that fast anymore. My i5 is nearly 7 years old and still runs smoothly with pretty much all Windows 10 applications. In comparisment I had a 286 in 1992 and a Pentium II in 1999. Now there's a difference

[AdamR]

Heh yeah, especially as my one before this was an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+. Also considering mine runs faster than the top model in the line (i7-995X Extreme Edition) it's just getting an even longer life. Jumping from 2 threads to 8 was also very significant.

PassMark: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+, Intel i7-920, and Intel i7-995X compared

Mine probably consumes quite a bit more power than a modern equivalent though. My work PC has an i7-6700, and that runs faster using significantly less power.

[GiGaBiTe]

Mine probably consumes quite a bit more power than a modern equivalent though.

Not "probably", it does consume significantly more power, especially overclocked. i7-920 is a 130W TDP part normally with a max power draw of 230W under heavy load. It pulls about 45% more power when overclocked to 3.8 GHz, or ~330W max under heavy load.

I have an i7-6700k which runs at 4 GHz stock with a 91W TDP.

[amckern]

I have been tinkering with the newer stuff for speeding the compile times within the SvenCoop tools source code, at the moment i wont be publishing anything here as we need to wait 5.21 to be released with support for the new default chop size in CSG.