Hi,
I’m working on a simple voxel engine for research purposes and for UE4 Learning.
I’ve some experience with other game engines like Unity.
Try to ask my question per points:
- In my prototype, basically, we would to create the entire world procedurally via Perlin Noise functions, in some way.
- The world is subdivided by chunks of 16x16x16 blocks
- At each frame, the engine compute the chunks to spawn, generate it in terms of blocks, create a “InstancedStaticMeshComponent” dinamically and attach it to the Chunk (a simple SceneComponent).
- For each ISMC created, add all blocks
So the Actor’s hierarchy is:
Actor (World)
|--Chunk1 (SceneComponent)
|------ISMC (filled with an instance per block)
|--Chunk1 (SceneComponent)
|------ISMC (filled with an instance per block)
The world works well, and the engine generate it correctly in front of the Player.
My problem is about performances. Each time I add blocks (instances) to the chunk (ISMC), 16x16x16 = 4096 instances, there is an Hitch. I can try to work on chunk visibility optimization, but the spawn of a single chunk create an hitch, so I believe something escapes me.
I’ve checked the Engine code, and somewhere it speacks about Physics, that I absolutely don’t need. May be the ISMC try to work on some physics and I can disable it?
Thanks in advance for any kind of tip you can give me.
Regards,