How can I measure the processing and the memory usage for the iphone/ipod?

beatrage

I´d like to know if everything that gamesalad runs in terms of processing and memory usage is accepted by the iphone and ipod hardwares!

for example if I create a game with the background all animated and particle effects on it (like a rain or snow stage) would it still run on iphone and ipod hardware?

How can I measure ( if there´s a tool ) the processing and memory usage of my games?

Or even if I create a mass animated game with 30FPS on gamesalad there would be no problem to iphone/ipod to handle it?

thank you for the support!!

butterbean

Great question, I wonder if it's just a matter of testing your game as you go, like trial & error, but it would be cool to have a tool that measures that, because I plan to add more animated effects in my game

Beatrage: How do you plan on simulating rain in your game? This is sort of a loaded question, but just wondering how you will be doing that

JGary321

Once the preview app is officially released you will be able to play it on YOUR iPhone, so you can see if running real-time. So it doesn't actually tell you the power/usage, but you will be able to at least make sure it is running smoothly.

beatrage

"Sous Chef"
Thanks for the answer!

"Butterbean21"

you can create an actor to create a particle effect and fix it on the camera layer or create a diferent camera for that specific layer(a rain background)...so that....when your character starts walking/running the effect still will be there ! and please put the efffect above the screen(of course) and don´t exagerate on the quantity of particles displayed....because your game could start using too much processing!