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SkyratBot ea1e6ff95f [MIRROR] Adds a preference that disables intensive rendering on different multiz layers [MDB IGNORE] (#17737)
* Adds a preference that disables intensive rendering on different multiz layers (#71218)

## About The Pull Request

It's kinda hacky, but it is nearly the same as just rendering one z
layer.
We allow people to ENTIRELY REMOVE most plane masters from their screen.
This has the side effect of disabling most visual effects (AO is a big
one) which saves a LOT of gpu.

We rely on planes being essentially layers to ensure things render in
the proper order. (outside of some hackyness required to make parallax
work)

I've kept parallax and lighting enabled, so visuals will still look
better then multiz pre plane cube.
It does also mean that things like FOV don't work, but honestly they
didn't work PRE plane cube, and FOV's implementation makes me mad so I
have a hard time caring.

Reduces gpu usage on my machine on tram from 47% to 32%, just above the
27% I get on meta.

I'm happy with this.

Oh also turns out the parallaxing had almost no cost. Need to remove it
as a side effect of what I'm doing but if I could keep it I would.

There's still room for in between performance options, like disabling
things like AO on lower z layers, but I didn't expect it to make a huge
impact, so I left things as is

Also fixes a bug with paper bins not respecting z layer. It came up in
testing and annoyed me

## Why It's Good For The Game

Ensures we can make multiz maps without running into client performance
issues, allows users to customize performance and visual quality.

## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds a new rendering option to the gameplay preferences. You can
now limit the rendering intensity of multiz levels. This will make
things look a bit worse, but run a LOT better. Try it out if your
machine chokes on icebox or somethin.
/🆑

Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@ users.noreply.github.com>

* Adds a preference that disables intensive rendering on different multiz layers

Co-authored-by: LemonInTheDark <58055496+LemonInTheDark@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@ users.noreply.github.com>
2022-11-25 14:27:27 +00:00

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/// Whether or not to toggle ambient occlusion, the shadows around people
/datum/preference/toggle/ambient_occlusion
category = PREFERENCE_CATEGORY_GAME_PREFERENCES
savefile_key = "ambientocclusion"
savefile_identifier = PREFERENCE_PLAYER
/datum/preference/toggle/ambient_occlusion/apply_to_client(client/client, value)
/// Backdrop for the game world plane.
for(var/atom/movable/screen/plane_master/plane_master as anything in client.mob?.hud_used?.get_true_plane_masters(GAME_PLANE))
plane_master.show_to(client.mob)