Underpowered PC mode

[dotproto]

Add an option that would allow TT to perform better on underpowered PCs. Potential features of this mode include:

• Disable head bob on awesome
  • Awesomes would either have no visual appearance, or avatars may change color to indicate awesome/lame.
• Simple avatar mode
  • Everyone goes ginger (or uses another single avatar)
• Disable chat bubbles on the dance floor.
  • Chat would only take place in the chat pane.
• Empty dance floor
  • Only render the DJs and the DJ booth.

For the super daring implementation, text adventure mode!

• Black background, white text.
• Pseudo CLI input.
• Basic commands such as: djs (lists djs), look at room (current room info), look at <user> (user info), look at decks (lists current DJs, song info (current song ID3 info), etc.
• Chat by typing "say <words>"
• Have north, south, east, west map to other rooms.
• Travel between rooms by typing "go north", etc.
• I don't actually think this is a great idea, but it is funny.

[jlbruno]

Just a heads up that the extension ttTools does include an option to turn off the avatar animation, which helps if it's using too much CPU power. https://github.com/egeste/ttTools

[dotproto]

Thanks for the heads up @jlbruno. There are also some scripts out there that do the same thing. It just seems like a good fit for TT+ :smile:

[Frick]

You'll note in the ttTools source that the functionality was even copied from a script I wrote. :-) Nevertheless, it is finally a part of TT+ in the latest release.

Edit: Nevermind... I guess he never credited me. :-/ I did the work in figuring out what it would take to kill CPU usage and turned it into a script, he did the work to re-enable everything once it was off.