Calico

Calico

Calico; anti-lag improvements & client optimizations for WEBFISHING.

About

Calico aims to improve the performance of WEBFISHING in multiplayer scenarios.

Improvements & optimizations

• Dedicated thread for compression and sending packets
• Dedicated thread for receiving and decompressing packets
• GPU instancing of common meshes (all trees, logs, bushes, mushrooms, etc.)
• Smoothing camera panning/motion by decoupling it from physics updates
• Reducing physics update rate
• Skipping cosmetics loading for players that have not changed
• Optimize player animation updates
• Other player processing optimizations (caught item, held item, sound effects)
• QoL features
• Grant other users moderation permissions to kick, ban, and unban
• Lobby IDs which cannot be spoofed for joining lobbies
• Other bug fixes

Install

(Recommended)

Visit the page for Calico.

Manual

• Download the latest release zip
• Unzip into your WEBFISHING directory such that the Teemaw.Calico folder ends up in WEBFISHING\GDWeave\mods\
• Optionally edit the configuration file in WEBFISHING\GDWeave\configs\Teemaw.Calico.json
• You're done!

Configuration

The Teemaw.Calico.json configuration file has the following schema and default values:

{

"DynamicZonesEnabled": true,

"LobbyQolEnabled": true,

"MapSoundOptimizationsEnabled": true,

"MeshGpuInstancingEnabled": true,

"MultiThreadNetworkingEnabled": true,

"PlayerOptimizationsEnabled": true,

"ReducePhysicsUpdatesEnabled": false,

"SmoothCameraEnabled": true,

"ZzCompatOverrideMayCauseCrash": false

}

DynamicZonesEnabled

Normally, the game will load and hold all zones (shop, aquarium, islands, etc.) in the scene tree regardless of where

your character currently is. Enabling this will dynamically attach and detach zones from the scene tree as you move

between them.

Files modified:

• res://Scenes/Map/main_map.gdc
• res://Scenes/Map/Tools/transition_zone.gdc

LobbyQolEnabled

This brings a few QoL features to lobbies:

• Peer moderators - hosts running Calico can grant other Calico users permissions to kick, ban, and unban.
• Lobby IDs - unique to each lobby and cannot be spoofed.
• A new button in the Esc menu lets you see and copy this ID.
• Other players with Calico installed can join with this ID.
• Fixes a bug in vanilla where player names are blank in some places.

Files modified:

• res://Scenes/Entities/Player/player.gdc
• res://Scenes/HUD/Esc Menu/esc_menu.gdc
• res://Scenes/HUD/Playerlist/player_entry.gd
• res://Scenes/HUD/Playerlist/playerlist.gd
• res://Scenes/Menus/Main Menu/main_menu.gdc
• res://Scenes/Singletons/SteamNetwork.gdc

MapSoundOptimizationsEnabled

This enables optimizations relating to sound effects of the map.

File modified:

• res://Scenes/Map/Props/bush_particle_detect.gdc

MeshGpuInstancingEnabled

Enabling this will reduce the number of GPU draw calls by combining calls for multiple copies of the same mesh into a

single call. Game objects which currently benefit from this include trees, bushes, mushrooms, water, etc.

File modified:

• res://Scenes/Map/main_map.gdc

MultiThreadNetworkingEnabled

This enables dedicated send and receive threads for sending and reading network packets. Packet compression and

decompression are also offloaded from the main thread.

File modified:

• res://Scenes/Singletons/SteamNetwork.gdc

PlayerOptimizationsEnabled

This enables patching of player scripts to optimize cosmetic loading, animation updates, sound effects, etc.

Files modified:

• res://Scenes/Entities/actor.gdc
• res://Scenes/Entities/Player/guitar_string_sound.gdc
• res://Scenes/Entities/Player/held_item.gdc
• res://Scenes/Entities/Player/player.gdc
• res://Scenes/Entities/Player/sound_manager.gdc

ReducePhysicsUpdatesEnabled (Disabled by default)

[!IMPORTANT]

It's highly recommended to set SmoothCameraEnabled to true if this option is enabled. Normally, the game camera's

movement is tied to the physics update rate. If you enable reduced physics upda