Hi,
i’m new here and have not too much experience with OpenGL. I’am trying to make a 3D game with OpenGL. The scene is a beach with a lot of palm trees.
I have now about 390 palm trees (390 times the same model with differently modelMatrices), a palm tree-model have about 1200 vertices, i have shadow calculation on the terrain and the trees, there are also 20000 dust-particles random distributed on the whole terrain (random movement, rendered with instancing).
I’m now trying to optimize the performance, unfortunately i have no idea, what is ok or not. FPS is always above 70/80, i think it’s ok, the most displays have only 60 Hz. Memory usage is between 300-700 Mb, i think it is also okay with the whole textures, dudv and normal-maps and sounds, but the CPU-usage is at 30%-40% (Intel i5-3570k), when the camera looking at the palm-forest, this seems to be to much for me…i have also tried to render the forest with instancing, unfortunately without considerable difference by the CPU-usage, i’m not sure, if i do it right, i think with instancing, the CPU makes only one draw call and loads all the model-matrices in the shader, is that right? The trees have no movement, i calculate the whole 390 model-matrices only at the initialisation and not evey frame.
Can someone explain me, if the CPU-usage is to high or not, and give me eventually some tips and tricks to increase the performance/ decrease the CPU-usage?
Thanks, Atteela
P.S. sorry about my bad english!