One of the best ways to reduce visual lag in large drafts is to turn off cable rendering in the debug menu. However, disabling cable rendering makes it a bit difficult to visualize the layout of your effect chains. I feel that a good compromise would be to add a sort of "ultra low detail mode" to the Cable Quality preference, which could either render the cables as flat, unshaded lines, or allow the cables to be routed underneath other devices to allow for less time spent figuring out the collisions with devices. Some feedback on this idea would definitely be useful, I am not really a web developer so I'm not entirely sure how well this would work, if at all.
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I feel like if the cables rooted underneath, it would cause more lag, right?
I love the flat idea though
I feel like it would depend on how AT handles the collision. If the large amount of twists and turns the cables go through to avoid the devices is part of the lag (which I believe it may be), then yes, you'd still get lag from trying to render the cable underneath the device, but you'd get more of a tradeoff since it's no longer worrying about avoiding the devices
As for the flat idea, it depends on how the cables are rendered, if the shading is built into the texture, this won't do much. Another part of the flat suggestion that I didn't mention was to replace the smooth bends with right angles... would look like shit but could potentially run better
or quit being lazy and do it like everyone else has been doing it since AT started XD
what do you mean by "quit being lazy?" I'm not sure what part of this was interpreted as laziness
this is meant to improve performance, not to increase efficiency.
I suggested it a long time ago to have ultra low detail mode not only for cables but for everything.
the audiotool way to do everything as inefficiently as possible
would be beneficial to have
Having it solid colors instead of images/textures/whatever would make client CPU usage go down significantly, which is good. Unfortunately for the idea, I haven't dealt with any serious problems, meaning there is no use for this. If your device is crashing hard, it is highly unlikely due to Audiotool.
@major_flux wtf is this nonsense speech?
bro really said thats a you problem
DAW's functionality is my problem?
Analogy, someone made an app which quickly drains my phone battery, that is my and my phones problem, not the problem with the app and people who developed it?
It’s a rather bold assumption
bro i am on your side, i am making fun of his argument