But, thanks to lots of help from Ryan, the frame rate has easily doubled. This should mean that I can go ahead and add particles and god powers and not have to worry about the frame rate any more. Note that I said “should”…

And if you’re an artist or modeller, check out Ryan’s new utility CrazyBump. It “creates normal maps directly from textures”. Not being an artist I don’t know what that means, but lots of people seem to like it.