I managed to squeeze some free time out of life to work a little on my 3d game's map maker. Heres the results of a memory/cpu usage test.

Test 1: 3/10/07 10pm for build #3 on Work Computer

Testing memory and processor consumption for 20 area maps.

Startup

Processor Usage: 28-31%

Memory Usage: 24,000 KB

Editor Running –> 23,760 room caption storing variables

Processor Usage: 22-31%

Memory Usage: 30,000 KB

Added 20 Maps –> 12,000 map grids with a total of 12,288,000 values

Processor Usage: 30-35%

Memory Usage: 173,500 KB

Conclusions

Memory Usage Per Area(all subs and layers) –> 7,475 KB à 7 ½ MB

Memory Usage Per Map(all layers for single map) –> 250 KB –> ¼ MB

Estimated Memory Usage for entire world –> 5,920,200 KB –> 5.9 GB

Crashes at 22 maps.

FPS never affected by variable load.

792 Area Maps

30 Sub maps per area

Of course this is if I were to have everything in memory, and as one can see that would be insane. 22 maps created was enough to freeze the program.

This is because nothing is saved as files yet, hopefully that will ease the strain. The trick is knowing that loading files can cost in loading time, I need to figure out the best method to do this.

Just for kicks and input heres a demo of it. <fixed>

http://64digits.com/users/Scott_AW/fixed_editor_b3.zip

And a screenshot of the startup.

http://64digits.com/users/Scott_AW/editor_start_samp.jpg

So far it really doesn't do anything but look pretty, however if you feel like giving feedback it would be welcomed, and if you're daring enough to see how many maps you can set before it crashes that would be interesting too. Currently this test was ran on a 1.9ghz pentium with 512mb of ddr ram.

When or if you run it, you'll be prompted with a box that asks for the world name, clicking the caption area will let you type it in( currently no symbols are accepted in any caption entries) and click create new world. As of yet you cannot load any created worlds as there is no saved data and you can't scroll through the list yet. It will create an INI file the indexs the worlds and I forget if it will make a directory called 'data' whereever you unzip it once running. Nothing is in this directory if it does.

You must press the save button to create the area map and its sub maps.

You'll also notice that the tool tab located bottom left will not have all the options pop up. This shouldn't cause any problems though. Let me know if you can understand the little tool tabs too.

Additional, when I got home I decided to test it out on my home system. Its a 1.6ghz amd with ~768 mb ddr and it seemed to get only slightly better results…

Test 2: 3/11/07 1:30pm for build #3 On home computer

Testing memory and processor consumption for 20 area maps

Startup

Processor Usage: 13-17%

Memory Usage: 17,900 KB

Editor Running

Processor Usage: 16-25%

Memory Usage: 22,000 KB

Added 20 Maps

Processor Usage: 20-27%

Memory Usage: 108,100 KB

Conclusions

Memory Usage Per Area(all subs and layers) –> 4,510 KB –> 4 ½ MB

Memory Usage Per Map(all layers for single map) –> 150 KB

Estimated Memory Usage for entire world –> 5,268,292 KB –> 5.26 GB

What does it all mean? Maybe AMD's handle processing better, because both me and work are using Windows 2k(is my favorite).