okay so the silhouette thing could be because I used "modulation" to test something in some animation that was no longer used, but...

Seems like the "determinstic" checkbox also just breaks the editor if I use it.

I don't know if it's something I want to use either way but... yeah

unchecking the box didn't undo it so that's fun...

Though I would like to use smaller light for specific spots later. But that comes at a performance cost, so we'll see. I'll have to look into it more, but it's not a priority. We can do without the lights for now

I'm quite happy about this. Thought I will try to see what can be done, even if I can't solve the problem, we don't actually need the lighting effects. The parallax backgrounds are much more important for making the game look nice

okay, it seems like removing my background is making a huge difference. That's something, at least

I have no idea what's hurting performance, and the built in profiler isn't really helping. So now I'm just trying to remove various things from (a copy of) the game world. To see what may be causing this

I guess more compression = computer has to work more? But it always takes like one second even at maximum compression for me.

I guess if the image is *really* large? Or maybe it's like a relic from when computers were much weaker?

Alright, I restarted the PC and it works now.

Didn't work the first time but I guess you just keep restarting it then

It's not the end of the world. It's not like we lost any data, I don't think. So we'll get it to work one way or other.

But I'd rather not reinstall Krita if I can avoid it. Because remapping all the shortcuts to where we want them is a pain in the butt

this time, I did try modify a different part of the script. And after restarting, it does work again. So I guess I just have to modify any part of the script once a day

Currently I'm planning to have the whistle to be the first upgrade the player obtain, to introduce the concept of "this is a game where you sometimes need to obtain a new item to progress"

that's great! Definitely don't wanna come off as negative or anything. I think Godot is really cool

that's true, I'm getting a lot of crashes just in general. I'm not technical enough to understand how hard or easy it is to fix, but I hope the developers prioritize making it not crash so often, feels kinda important