Small performance tips

UtopianGames

So if you have actors checked to movable and have a lot of them it will cause low frame rates.

There is a way to still move certain actors depending on what you want to do.

For eg in my platform game i have some platforms movable attribute set to unckecked and you can still move it with interpolate self.position.Y to self.Position.Y-48

You can also still move actors by using the constrain to mouse X or Y if movable is unchecked.

Hope this helps.

Darren.

jonmulcahy

Cool, that's a great tip.

TouchTiltGames

Awesome thanks, D.

JGary321

You can also of course just change X/Y if you don't need any move effect & just need to get it from one place to another. This is great for 'trigger' actors.

However 2 actors with moveable off will not 'collide'. In other words they will not be able to effect each other. As long as 1 has it on though you can still effect the other. Does this make sense?

-JGary

quantumsheep

JGary321 said:
You can also of course just change X/Y if you don't need any move effect & just need to get it from one place to another. This is great for 'trigger' actors.

However 2 actors with moveable off will not 'collide'. In other words they will not be able to effect each other. As long as 1 has it on though you can still effect the other. Does this make sense?

-JGary

Makes perfect sense mate

FanStudioUK

So, if i have an actor that is using the Move behavior (which goes through the screen), I can uncheck the movable box and assign an interpolate self position.x to self.position.x + 480 and he will pass the screen as it would have done it with the Move behavior?

JGary321

Yes. If you only have a few actors then do whatever is easier. But if you have a lot of actors this will definitely help with performance. You learn to squeeze every bit out of the engine.

FanStudioUK

I have a lot of actors! I wil try it right now I can't wait to see the improvement!

FanStudioUK

Yes, but if I use the interpolate value the Pause functionality I've added it's not working aymore....also I don't see a major improvement: I'm spawning 3 enemies every 3 seconds.
In the viewer I have the same framerate: 56-60 and 21 Mb Ram

AfterBurnett

Good tips!

scitunes

If you are getting 56-60 you don't need to do anything, that's about as good as it gets.