[Automatic Culling - Dynamic auto-cull] lua/autorun/automatic_aggressive_drc_culling.lua:37: attempt to compare number with nil
1. unknown - lua/autorun/automatic_aggressive_drc_culling.lua:37

Gmod issue, ask in their Discord. I've never had that problem so idk how to help you.

i cant disable it!

you can use mat_wireframe 4 to see the visual effect used in the thumbnail, anything picked up by this system will disappear when obstructed by the world even if it's in the same room as you.

Is there a way to know if this is working aside from comparing FPS?

Okay so it seems it culls only stuff you spawn yk loose items so it wont help with lag as it dont cull teh map like some other game do. thats what i getting from it, it will help for if you have a shit ton of stuff spawned in, ir maybe maps with alot of entities npcs and loos stuff, Anyways Yeah

Honestly i feel dumb for still not fully understanding how this works but i havent dropped below 55 FPS since ive subscribed. I thought it was just some random "FpS bOoStEr" you see on workshop but ive subbed to you before and youve never lead me wrong. Whether or not this is for what i think it is. This mod has literally saved my Realism collection. Thank you homie. Take these multiple awards, my smile, a handshake, a thumbs-up. And finally my gratitude. Have a great day! <3

i have one question why when i load up i see some doctor breens

Does this cull NPC's?

Ohhh, I'm really sorry for wasting your time... I kind of forgot I needed that enabled.

You didn't install the required addon

Hey, what's up with this error?

[Automatic Culling - Dynamic auto-cull] lua/autorun/automatic_aggressive_drc_culling.lua:3: attempt to index global 'DRC' (a nil value)
1. unknown - lua/autorun/automatic_aggressive_drc_culling.lua:3

Is it something to worry about? Is it something else conflicting?

If those props are small enough, have 3 or more materials, and the map isn't already culling them then yes

so if there are a ton of props on a map, this will help keep the lag down?

Catch them, kill them.

having pattern recognition is apparently russophobic now? take a load of this guy

@Vuthakral я имел ввиду, что можно сделать альтернативный аддон, как в случае с wOS, а не разбирать код базы на 10 аддонов, я просто не так выразился видимо, в целом, мне больше и нечего добавить.

this saved my computer

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And no, it's not "Russophobia". The Steam Workshop is not the only place I get feedback or find things people say about me and my work; and even then the Draconic Base's page is definitely not the only place on Steam that it happens. I've seen both positive and negative remarks in many languages, not just Russian; just that the pattern I've noticed is most Russian ones tend to be very hostile and accusatory of either me as a person or my work. Your first comment made me assume yours was no different at first with it's very accusatory nature. Very common theme of them is to assume me as a furry just because of my profile picture and start going in with extremely disgusting remarks to the point when they were comments on Steam I deleted them because of how atrocious they were.

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Like I said to the other guy, there is background code in Draconic which is supposed to abort if it isn't needed but I haven't checked on it in a long time so changes to other systems or setups might have caused them become non-functional, and that I intend to go back and ensure everything there is working as the Draconic Base was always designed from the beginning to not waste performance by merely existing. I don't get why your solution is to ask me to disassemble my codebase and turn it into dozens of different micro-scale addons rather than to just fix the actual issue. A lot of stuff isn't as simple as "just take it out", a lot of it is interwoven and reliant on functions, logic, and definitions I've written into the codebase itself which I needed in order to make some stuff possible.

+ как дополнение, многие установленные у меня аддоны это модельки для игроков, пропы, несколько баз на оружия, анимации, QoL аддоны и т.д, но никакие из этих аддонов особо не затрагивают мою производительность пассивно, и вообще, можно ли как-то отделить некоторую часть кода от самой базы, и сделать это отдельным аддоном? (как это сделал King David™, чтобы xdR нормально работал в паре с wOS)

— я не понимаю к чему слова о видео и скриншотах, а инструменты по типу Addon hooks Lag Finder вообще не находят проблему, все аддоны там не влияют на производительность, но я своими глазами вижу влияние твоей базы на фпс, так что это не работает. за 30 вкладок с комментариями под самим Draconic Base я нашёл лишь двух русских, которые пишут о проблеме с фпс, не русофобия ли это?

ты всё ещё не понял, меня не волнует какой-то конкретный аддон, проблема как раз таки в том, что почти для всех твоих аддонов нужна база, которая пассивно снижает фпс, я даже перепроверил, просто стоя на месте уже исчезает ~6 фпс, другие не сталкиваются с такой же критикой, потому что другие базы, кроме баз для оружий - не лагают, либо таких случаев очень мало, а про оружия - любая база для них будет лагать (кроме m9k), какая-то меньше, какая-то больше, нет идеальной, поэтому никто и не жалуется —

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Per your last point: yes, actually. I'm very thankful to have had several instances of users pointing out to me where I can improve performance in my code over the years, and it makes me especially happy when people give me well-structured feedback of issues so that I may fix them. Several instances of video, screenshots, and things you seem to think are unreasonable or like it's something that is somehow impossible. There are many metrics and tools people can use (both within Garry's Mod & not) to measure the performance of their game.

Again, I do not understand why to many, and especially Russian commenters regularly for some reason, I am some kind of "boogeyman" and why I am treated like everything I do is malicious.

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I make and maintain a codebase and it's evil when I utilize it but when others do it they don't face the same scrutiny? Also you do realize you're complaining about this on an addon I wrote because people requested I do so right? I wrote the aggressive culling originally just to use on my weapon base to help combat performance drops on multiplayer servers with tons of players & NPCs using high-end models for their guns.

You refer to a previous comment where I didn't name any specific other codebases, I still won't name any because I don't like to create or partake in drama but something specific in mind when I wrote that is how quite a lot of weapon bases out there are so ridiculous on how they calculate their behaviour that automatic weapons on them often drop my game close to single digit framerates.

— если тебе недостаточно большого количества людей, которые тебе прямо говорят о плохой оптимизации - не моя проблема, как по твоему мнению человек докажет, что твоя база не оптимизированная? покажет извлечённый код твоей базы? или запишет видео при помощи OBS, который сам по себе дополнительно будет сжирать фпс? даже человек снизу написал, что его фпс уменьшился, хоть и не уверен, в твоей ли базе проблема.

@Vuthakral нет уж, если бы ТЫ научился читать, то понял бы, что твоя же база используется почти во всех твоих аддонах с момента её создания, даже там, где она не нужна вовсе, "Funny how my base is the only one on the receiving end of that accusation despite some other more popular ones actually having that be the case." твои слова, отсюда же я и взял вывод с тем, что остальные базы оказывается более лагучие (нет, это касается/касалось только Enhanced PlayerModel Selector, и даже так, там не лаги, а вылеты из игры) —

Flatgrass with or without props? There's a few background things in Draconic but most of them abort when not needed. I haven't checked on or updated them in a while so I can go double check all of those to ensure nothing is running when it shouldn't be.

hey awsome mod but i went from 550-600 to 450-500 on flatgrass im not sure if its my pc being dogshit or anything like that,still good mod

Comments like yours are something I have been putting up with for years. I don't know if there's some kind of Russian subculture within Garry's Mod that has an extreme hatred for me/my base with how often it comes from Russians specifically, but I've had enough of it. I draw the line at baseless accusations and mindless complaints that have zero backing and are just thrown at me in an attempt to insult.

@Creedani I don't know what your problem with me is but if you could learn to read you would have figured out the culling is part of the Draconic Base itself which is why it is required. I've never claimed any other base as having any kind of "optimization problem" like you say, though you referring to mine as "laggy" with no real citation as to what way shows some projection of your own accusation of me. I would normally close a comment like this with an apathetic "Sorry for making stuff?" but frankly I'm getting really tired of all the dumb-ass comments like yours constantly accusing me of shit I don't do while also berating me and my work for merely existing. Kindly fuck off you spineless loser.

у тебя блять фетиш во все свои аддоны свою лагучую базу вставлять? ещё и обвиняя другие базы в том, что у них такая же проблема с оптимизацией, хотя на деле все они функционируют абсолютно нормально.

ever since I downloaded this mod, the ice cream truck has stopped coming to my house. Can you fix this error

@TASbot -- Minimally most Half-Life 2 objects use a single material and the maps are already pretty well optimized on top of being pretty small to begin with.

@ReddSnake -- Particles are not altered by this addon nor its required codebase. It prevents models from drawing when obscured by the world within your viewing angle and that's it.

This mod seems to mess with some weapon particles and disable them, but otherwise great mod

Does this have an affect for Singleplayer/HL2 Campaigns?

ohh yeahh

Hey this mod is actually amazing

@noskill I ran some performance tests to check this and I can confirm you are mostly correct, it's not "lossless" by any standard but it is around 60% faster in average cases, and diminishes to around 30% the closer you get to a thousand entries. I decided to also test an iterative loop and that would actually be the true fastest, boasting a 75% performance difference (increase) at as high as 10,000 table entries. I'll look into rewriting how the AggressiveCulls table & system works to take advantage of this; thanks for bringing it to my attention.

why do people want to find fault in this addon ???? it seems weird at this point.

People unironically blame a simple mod that's all about not rendering stuff, for every problem they have.

does it work in multiplayer? or atleast not buggy?

lua is really fast if its jit compiled, if you restructured DRC.AggressiveCulls and used ipairs over pairs it would be pretty much lossless in terms of comparison

That is most definitely not a cause of this addon nor the Draconic Base. I actually have the Dishonored Parkour installed and can confirm that one especially is not an issue. The "silver guy" you are seeing is likely the default player model in the Source Engine -- it's a mis-textured Half-Life 1 Gordon Freeman model. If you are seeing this as yourself in Garry's Mod it means some addon is breaking during the initialization phase of either the gamemode or the player itself and preventing the actual Garry's Mod layer of the player class from executing.

Not sure about multiplayer, but this replaces the player model with some silver guy. It also freezes you in place when doing certain actions with Dishonored Parkour. The only way to escape is to disconnect and reconnect.

Yeah now that I think of that. You are definitely right. Sorry again tho I do have lua patcher mod that auto fixes any issues especially for older forever broken mods and make sure all these mods work they work well without but better with so far this mod is only one that seem to not work so yeah. I probably should see if getting a rod if that one culling ish mod may fix it and definitely downsize amount of mods I have lol. Anyways Yeah. Sorry bothering ans thanks great mod btw (ps I used to have 1,040 mods I been downsizing ish for a bit now) 😅

Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
I don't think you need me to really confirm that that's bad.

842 mods exactly if i remember
Is that bad do that break it?
I looked to make sure I didnt have a mod that also does culling there is the "Preformance Mod" that does a little bit of culling stuff i think but also many other things I relay on ish. I have a shitty ish laptop idk. Anyways Yeah. Sorry again btw. Thanks for if help ans yes!.

Do I dare ask how many addons you have installed?

this dont seem to work. using it seems to make it stutter for me. idk if idk. does this even work? im wondering. sorry if im being dumb but yeah. like will this cull by not looking at it ore by distance like idk if this is working for me or not or im just dumb idk