Multiple blasts?

Fajlajp

Hi everybody
I've looked on tsb's tutorial about blasts, but I can't find a good way to have multiple blasts in a scene, without effect the performance.
//Fajlajp

Fajlajp

Bump

KnightStar

It all depends on how you are doing your "Blasts".. For example, with my Titan Prime missile-command styled game, I had to accommodate for the player spamming the FIRE button and creating up to 15 different explosions appearing on screen. The technique I used was to recycle the blasts just like several tutorials explain how to recycle bullets in shooters..

In my case, I optimized further by having the player-missiles change image and then animate the images into the explosion (resetting back to their original missile image after returning back to their holding position off screen when done).





- KS

Fajlajp

@knightstar
I need it for a zombie-drop styles puzzle game

KnightStar

How big are your blasts? What are you considering a "blast"? Are we talking screen-shaking & particles all over the place? Or just an actor animating 5-10 frames of an explosion? If the latter, use the Bullet recycling technique and keep the actors off-screen until needed..

- KS