@britzl - I think I found the slowdown problem.
It seems it was Win11’s new “Windows Defender Advanced Threat Detection”. I removed the whole Defold folder from being scanned (not the project just Defold executable folder) and for the last 30 mins.. its been working properly!! Argh!! Effin windows!!
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Good to hear that it is working again. But very annoying that window again and again makes life difficult for developers.
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Yeah. Im vhappy this is what it was. I did previously try making exceptions for individual runtimes (firewall and security) and that had no effect. I didnt realize you could make an exception for a whole folder, and this did it. still no probs.
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More progress. I made a little RLE Video playback system for the TVs in the UI. I’ll put this up as a separate dev blog and provide a project if people find it useful. I have a python script for generating the rle videos and they come out pretty small if you choose a good palette and your videos are suited to this sort of generation (very noisy, very colorful vids are probably not).
This is playing 320x180 (16:9) videos to a texture on a model at 15fps. The decode is extremely fast, so you should be able to do 60fps if you really wanted
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Ok. Another little snippet. Two different videos with different color palette sizes. These are just sample vids but they seem to convert and work fine. Very happy with it.
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Added project for the video system here:
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Ok. After fighting with Blender and gltf… I managed to get two pilots into the main screen. Starting to properly take shape. Happy with this atm. Will work on some lighting and maybe shadows (might just do some SSAO or something).
On the animation, the performance isnt that great. These are two go’s with models (gltfs) with about 10K polys and around 20 bones. The framerate noticably drops when these are added. Im wondering if I need to use the skinned material or something. Will investigate later, but its a little odd since I didnt think they were particularly heavy anims.
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So.. Its Xmas.. and Im rewriting some more stuff 
.. but heres a little Xmas video. Maybe.. maybe.. it will get to release early next year. But with so many other things I have on atm, Im not sure.
Otherwise, wishing everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year! May you all have a wonderful 2026!
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