JRJ Water Drop performance impact

[Unassigned]

Is this the right area to post questions relating to jeronij's work?

Anyway, I have been dabbling in making rivers (which run down mountain slopes) using "JRJ Water Drop"  from jeronij's Rural Culvert and Water Effects set (at least I believe that is where it is from). Trouble is, I do this on tiles where cities are being developed, and it appears having a 30ish amount of Water Drops on a tile significantly impacts SC4 performance, and mostly so when the simulation is running: slow and choppy scrolling, automata moving jerkily, SC4 taking t-i-m-e to draw lots and worst of all, the simulation itself runs much slower than usual (especially on the fastest setting).

Bulldozing most of the Water Drops restores game performance. But I don't want to do that. I like my mountain streams, and they are needed to feed my hydro dams. Thus my question is, is there a workaround or fix which allows me to both keep the Water Drops and retain normal (for me) game performance?


PPS:  This is on a Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz/2 GB RAM/WinXP/GeForce 8600(M) GT @1280x800 resolution, should imho be able to handle SC4.

[jacqulina]

yes there is you have to terraform with the mayor mode tools in steps but quite far apart enabling more of a rush looking rapids but using very few water drops,i have done a rapids river using only a few.the terraforming is very tedious but excellent results.i use his effects and culverts all the time in my cjs.




sorry if i wasnt supposed to reply to this i couldnt resist

[jeronij]

Excellent answser Jacqui 

Unassigned, those are Maxis effects, and they do consume really much computer resources. The only solution I found is the one Jacqulina posted. Try to keep the number of lots to the smallest possible 

[Unassigned]

...and indeed it was some post of jacqulina's which led this newbie to the Water Drop, that and her astounding waterfall pictures. Thanks jacqulina and jeronij, I understand that it is necessary to minimise the number of water drop lots.

I will think of a suitable area on the forums to display my work in progress and ask for comments and suggestions.

[jacqulina]

thankyou and your very welcome

[Unassigned]

FYI the rivers which caused my issue are shown here .

[jacqulina]

heres a couple of examples of using less water drops.this is the result you can get if you take your time my friend.

[Unassigned]

I am aware of your work  and hope to acquire that level af skill. Thanks for posting your pics here.

[jacqulina]

your very welcome and thanks,im sure you will you allready are doing very well.