Re: How to Protect your python log

NOTE

above i wrote that the python log lists everything that is loaded into your game ? well this is not 100% true , it lists nearly everything but not quite,

a few years ago i was playing tanks on my old pc with xvm running and the usual mods installed and found my fps were way down and not at a level that i could play with so i decided to take action myself and modify a few things.

first i used the WOT Tweaker program that switched off explosions etc. which was great and it regained a handful of frames back to make the game more playable , this was totally legal but i thought i could grab more frames back if i modified some objects ingame such as trees and bushes and set about creating my own speedtree mod very much the same as a tundra mod in results but done in a different way all together.

a tundra mod does not take anything away from the game it just makes certain things transparent or see through by lowering the alpha channel is a simple way to explain it , all bushes and trees are still drawn but are not colored so they are invisable to the naked eye , this method does not save on fps as your pc still has to draw and handle the bushes and trees only you cant see them , my speedtree mod worked different , every map has a data sheet of all plants and trees that it uses , these trees and bushes are different sizes but cant be roughly seen as small medium and large items ,if you delete two of the three sizes from the data sheet , they will not be loaded and your pc does not have to handle them ,so by taking small and medium images out everything in battle that is medium to far away are not displayed , only the closer images (large) will be loaded and seen , you can then thin out the larger images and de leaf them for even less to be seen but still know where a tree or a bush is supposed to be,and of course your pc is not being made to handle them , this was the only reason i made my speedtree mod to save fps and it will pull back around 15-20 fps from map to map , however it is illegal of course, but unlike tundra mods its undetectable due to the way it works it never shows up in your python log as it does not use any form of scripting , it uses modified game files with the same checksums