Using game attributes instead scene attributes - Is it a good practice?

Fabri Damazio

To avoid the editing of many instances of my actors i'm using all game attributes instead scene attributes.

Is it a good program practice?

Is there's another solution to access scene attributes?

ultima

yes i've always wondered if using scene attribute has any performance advantage over game? that's my assumption theoretically it should... unless anyone actually tested it or knows a thing or two on this topic... so far i'm just using game attributes for ones that needs to be accessed globally, and scene attribute(or actor attribute) that is called on per case basis.

Fabri Damazio

I was thinking what have best performance:

LESS game attributes but MORE instances of actors

or

MORE instances of actors and LESS game attributes

Fabri Damazio

i will use the global attributes because i dont got anwser. If someone knows something about it, post here.

tenrdrmer

There is no performance difference between actor,Scene, or Game attributes. Its about organizing and what is the most efficient for your game. I normally only use scene attributes to identify scene related things like level numbers. actor attributes are generally only for that specific actor. For example if you had a Lives attribute on a dozen actors if it where a game attribute reducing the life of one who affect all. So you need to make that an actor attribute.