Hi.
I build a little conveyor belt system but my current implementation is pretty bad and expensive. At 1000 moving items per tick It starts to drop my framerate significantly, on 1300 items I lost already 10 fps. On 2000 Items Im down to 30fps.
Sure thing since its moving every item (represented by ISM) individually.
I read the very interesting factorio devblog (Friday Facts #176 - Belts optimization for 0.15 | Factorio)
In theory it makes sense for me, all items move with same speed, always have the same distance between each other except the first one gets blocked. So all I need to calculate is the distance between the first item and end of belt, and last item and start of belt… but how do I move items with this again…?
Questions I just cant wrap my head around… how can I move multiple items together? How can I move items without touching them… I imagine a line/train where all items are stuck to, then I pull this line and everything connected to it comes with it, since they talk about “you only increment/decrement those terminal gap sizes, and do not touch items at all!”
Im glad for every explanation / push in the right direction…!
