So this has me messed up beyond belief: how do I optimize foliage? I’ve tried culling, LOD’s, less dense foliage, but anytime I make a forest environment the fps drops from 90-120 to 20-40, which isn’t playable. I have an RTX 3080 so if it performs that way for me than no one will be able to play these games. It isn’t even a big area. It’s a little smaller than the default landscape size when you create a new landscape. I know I’m not gonna get 120 fps in a forest but I want my players to have a stable 60.
For better context, here are a few photos. My trees aren’t complicated (at least as far as I can tell), they’re spread out, and the last picture shows you how small it is because that’s the whole game.
I got them on the marketplace (the Stylized Indian Temple pack). Attached is a screenshot with the tree info on it (It’s LOD 1 because I’m not using LOD 0 on that tree). I went through and deleted everything one at a time, but nothing seemed to get my fps back up. Even when I deleted the foliage, it only went up about 10, which is weird because adding foliage is what initially caused it to drop.
I noticed you have streamed levels. Did you unload some, or all?
You must get a massively high fps on an empty level, right?
Try just a rough remake of the level, and keep your eye on the fps as you go.
I know there are problems with UE5 and 3000 series cards at the moment, I guess it could be related to that.
If you’re totally stuck, you can PM a link to the project if you like. But I won’t be able to take a look until tomorrow late. ( If you want to do that just migrate the critical parts to a new empty project and zip it ).
Yeah I get 120 on an empty level. Basically when the game starts the only level that’s loaded is that picture I sent showing the whole game. The other levels are the sky, blockout, a deleted level that is being cut from the game, and a room that shows up at the end of the game. All non-foliage meshes are nanite. I’m not fully aware of the issue with 3000 series cards (other than the constant crashes, but that’s a separate issue). I’ll play around with it some more and if need be I’ll PM the project Tuesday morning.
I have the same issue, but it is MUCH MUCH worse than the problem here. I use Megascans trees with the lowest LOD I could use and foliage that isn’t allowed to go below LOD 2. Even with a light amount of this stuff, I get 5-10fps looking straight ahead on a small open world. I don’t know how to enable level streaming, and texture streaming says it’s on but I don’t think PIE allows that.
Please help me with this. I can’t get help elsewhere.
Also, I do need some kind of guidance on where to get a good player model based on SK_Mannequin because my metahuman caused me months of work lost thanks to crashes.
