After

• Bird Call, Closing Journal, and Next Page Button positioned outside journal area.

• Incorrect scaling and rotating of bird images.

• Journal Tabs are strictly astatic and lack purpose.

• Deleting Image (X) is unnecessary; images can be replaced if taken during the same state.

Journal ~ Active Quest

Journal ~ Inactive Quest

Revamping Entire Journal UI

Before

• Closing Journal, and Next/Back Page Button are floating outside of the journal's space.

• Pages are filled with white image boxes instead of not being shown.

• Bird images aren't consistent with the other pages.

Journal ~ Active Quest

Journal ~ Inactive Quest

• Bird Call, Closing Journal, and Next Page Button are positioned inside the journal area

• All bird images are scaled correctly

• Removed "Deleting Image (X)" option

• Incorporated outline around bird images for improved visibility.

• Relocated Bird Call button atop the main objective to signify that players can hear the bird call

• Journal Tabs now provide functionality to let the player close the journal

• Bird Call, Closing Journal, and Next/Back Page Button are positioned inside the journal area

• White borders are removed

• Pages are filled with outlines to signify something belonging inside the border

Optimization

Before

GPU Visualizer:

• 18.63 (ms) GPU bottleneck

  • Rendering Dynamic Shadow

  • Rendering Dynamic Lighting

  • Foliage Casting Shadows

  • High hits on Post Processing

Unreal Engine Stat Engine:

• Over 38 million Static Mesh Triangles are being calculated at a time. (Peak 40 ~ 42 million).

Average FPS Highest Settings: 30fps
Average FPS Medium Settings: 45 ~ 50fps
Average FPS Lowest Settings: 100fps

After

Average FPS Highest Settings: 144 ~ 200fps
Average FPS Medium Settings: 200 ~ 250fps
Average FPS Lowest Settings: 350 ~ 400fps

GPU Visualizer:

• Only 9.22 (ms) GPU Bottleneck

  • Optimized Lumen Lighting

  • Baked Lighting

  • Baked Shadows instead of dynamically updating

  • Disabled Grass Shadows

  • Lowered amount of Bloom and Post Processing used

Unreal Engine Stat Engine:

• Only 14 ~ 15 million triangles are being calculated

• Removed unnecessary overlapping grass

• Removed foliage under objects players can't see

• Lowered draw distance

Foliage Counter:

• Over 300K foliage each casting dynamic shadows

• 208K grass foliage overlapping each other.

• 68.7K grass foliage placed on top of the 208K grasses