Questions regarding the capabilities of Godot and advice

Hendrik

Hi there,

I am very interested in Godot and want to use it for my project but want to know if Godot can handle a high number of entities with their own AI. I want to make an isometric game with 6 factions each having a minimum of 1000 units. Ideally moving and being directed on a very large map. I was hoping that by today the processing power for something like this will be possible. I want to use 2D because I like the art style but will use 3D if it is better for performance.

I want to delay rendering if the units are out of view of the player to save resources and want to know if this is possible?

My idea is to have a faction AI that directs all its units over the map and then individual AI that activates when the player comes into view range. Almost like age of empires skirmish AI coupled with individual AI.

So any advice would be great but I want to know if this is actually doable.

Ross

6000 AIs minimum? Good luck doing that in any engine. I hope you know what you're doing and you're not just some newb kid thinking, "I'm going to make a game like X only 10 times as big! It'll be awesome!" I'm sure it's doable, since the units probably won't need to "think" very often, but you'll probably want to use C++ and need to spend a bunch of time benchmarking and optimizing it.

Speaking of benchmarks, I've been checking out Bunnymark. It might be interesting to you. That version is by far the fastest I've seen. I get at least 10,000 bunnies before it starts to slow down at all (below 60fps). Someone also made a Godot version. I got 4500 bunnies with that at 60fps (with a build, in the editor it is much worse). I also tried a version with Atomic engine, which uses javascript, I got about 5300 bunnies with that. GDScript seems pretty slow, though from the bunnymark I guess it's not as slow as I'd feared.