February 19, 2018
Added 2018-02-19 18:35:51 +0000 UTCI've remodeled the Manor and my frame-rate doubled. It's not furnished, but I think the real issue came down to how the walls and everything else was constructed, with a 3rd party addon. I think that addon was blowing out my render queue. Forcing the creation of new materials and new draw calls for each wall. Blech. Now the whole thing is just modeled in Blender, and there's minimal unneeded vertices and only a few materials total, one for each surface type. Also, I think those damn griefers stole all the doors, and maybe the stair railings.
I bought a different addon to help with the placing of objects. It lets me use objects: trees, weeds, rocks, bushes, whatever, as a brush and just paint them in places. That tremendously speeds up the detail work.
I had to add a basement to the Manor, for. . reasons. Getting that to work took longer than it seems like it should. Given that it's underground, and you can't really cut holes in Unity Terrain easily. There are hacky ways to do it, but none worked out right. Ultimately I just had to drop the terrain height underneath the manor and build some "grounds" area and a wall to hide the slope. Shhhh, don't tell anyone.
