The Optimization Update™

It’s been a while, but I’ve been using this thing for my own purposes for almost a year now and I haven’t found any major bugs in the optimized version so I’m officially promoting that to Version 1.1.

There are also a few quality of life things that I added. Version 1.1 includes:

• A bunch of optimizations (the ones that you saw in the optimization video plus a few more that I thought of afterwards)
• A whole bunch of new Vector functions (including a Vector2 class), just for fun
• Removed the Matrix classes in favor of just using the GameMaker 16-element array matrices, because those were confusing and using them added more overhead that I really like
• If you construct a ColTransformedModel (or call the Set() method that goes with them) with an array of ColTriangles instead of a ColMesh, a ColMesh will be created for you
  • This will create a new ColMesh from scratch, so only do this if each Transformed Model is to be associated with a unique Mesh
• ColWorld now takes an Octree, Quadtree, or Spatial Hash as its preferred acceleration structure instead of creating one for you
• ColWorld::CheckRay can now take a maximum distance, discarding any hits that are farther away
• Added COL_MIN_TREE_DENSITY to set the object threshold for when a tree structure is subdivided, which can speed them up by a fair amount
• Shapes attached to objects also have an .object reference that they can refer back to