turning off surfaces in voxel editor and via script and optimization suggestions

YtheL2

Optimization is a very big problem for people that are making larger scale games. My suggestion is to have an option in the editor to turn off either front, back, right, left etc surfaces with simple buttons and having a function that would allow me to turn off those surfaces via script. This allows us to optimize our games even more. Currently, my game, Yasonia is running at 25-35 fps in detailed maps with assets, mountains etc and i made every single optimization option like simplifying collisions, filling up empty assets so that there are less surfaces, dividing the map into very small spaces etc. Hide surface function would probably give my game +10 fps if implemented correctly. In order to still carry the simplistic design of RPG in a Box, you can add a small "Advanced Options" button in the voxel editor to put all of these functionalities.

YtheL2

You can even make something like an auto optimization button that once turned on, can only show surfaces that the camera sees kind of like a line of sight. Not only this would be a crazy optimization but also it would be an amazing feature for the engine. There can be marketing opportunities like "optimize your game with one click!!" etc..

YtheL2

You can edit this auto optimization button via configuration settings. Options could be "distance from camera"[x tiles] meaning that if the camera, for ex, 2 tiles away from an object, entity or another tile, auto hide everything.

Turn [on/off] line of sight meaning that if the camera is directly looking at a wall, should the things behind the wall still be rendered regardless of the distance?.

Another option could be Exception groups[v Dropdown menu of created object groups v] meaning that the specified groups will always be rendered.