I am 99% sure spawning projectiles is the cause of the memleaks of this game. Not sure how to go about solving it for now.

Currently dead and dying pawns still have collision, which means living pawns can push them around. Dead pawns sliding around on the floor looks bad

resolution

1. Dead and dying pawns should no longer collide with other pawns

MedievalHeroSim currently uses physics to move pawns around in the world. Its simply unnecessary to preform that level of computation for moving aroud pawns on a flat plane. If pawn movement was not based on physics, MedievalHeroSim might be significantly more optimized.

resolution

1. investigate if removing physics-based movement would yield a performance improvement
2. if non-physics-based movement is fast, then implement it.

Big projects need unit testing. As this project continues to increase in size, manually retesting every possibility will be more and more impossible.

We can implement automated testing to combat this. Automated testing comes in two flavors, integration testing and unit testing.

Integration testing tests how multiple components in a program interact together. For MedievalHeroSim that is akin to testing an entire scene. Using some tools from here: https://chickensoft.games/, this should be fairly doable.

Unit testing tests exactly one class. Godot4 is currently very hostile to unit testing for a number of reasons, the largest of which is that any GODOT-derived class cannot be mocked or created in unit testing.
Here are some solutions I may have found to the unit testing problem:

1. use Zero mock to mock concrete types: https://github.com/ZeroMock/ZeroMock/tree/master
2. Use assembly modification to make all godot methods virtual, thus enabling the use of a more common mocking framework, like moq: https://github.com/fody/virtuosity

In other news, we can use this: https://github.com/StefH/ProxyInterfaceSourceGenerator to generate interfaces for our classes.
Might be worth taking a look at.

This project currently lacks a proper document on how to setup blender and how to export blender files from blender to godot. We have incomplete documentation here, but the incomplete documentation could be improved greatly

I would eventually like to get to the point where even the base game is loaded as a mod. Not sure how to structure this project for this at all.

Overview

Right now godot uses uids to identify other objects to import into scene. There uids are unfortunately computer-specifc, and so need to be remade every time this project is cloned locally.

If the uid is incorrect, then a filepath fallback is used.

problem

One of the times I cloned this project locally, it ran unusually slow. After the uids were rebuilt, the project was noticeably faster. I did not do a proper test, so something else may have happened, but this is still worth a look.

Testing

I imagine you could just manually edit all the uids in scene to be wrong and see if it runs slower

problem

Animation retargeting is a technology that allows once skeleton to be used for multiple meshes. I have no idea how it works.

resolution

this issue will be marked as resolved then someone has investigated and explained what Animation retargeting is and how it can or cannot benifit this project in the comments below