Questions tagged [efficiency]
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Can we avoid PCF shadow blur in area where it is full shadow or no shadow
I cast shadows in either opened or closed environment for a directional light whose lookat position follows the player position. So the shadowmap is refreshed regularly so that I cannot store a fixed ...
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Wondering if there is a more efficient way to store level data in my game?
I am trying to remake Super Mario Bros. in JavaScript and I am trying to figure out if there is a more efficient way to create and store the level data. I have created 1-1 and here's what the code ...
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Desynchronizing MonoBehavior's "Update" from the overall app or UI Toolkit graphic output rendering in Unity?
Is it possible to desynchronize Application.targetFrameRate and Monobehavior's Update() from the graphics output rendering rate ...
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Draw 2D circles/squares efficiently with Unity
I'm doing a lot of 2D simulations using Unity, and I usually instantiate a lot of squares/circles sprite. When the number of sprites reaches 1k or higher, the FPS usually reduces to 10-20, which makes ...
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More efficient/clean way of programmatically generating and customizing repetitive objects?
I am coding my UI in Unity C# with the UI Toolkit, and as I write more and more my code is getting quite annoying in terms of one particular issue. I find myself repeating many similar lines of code ...
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Does setting the alpha of a UI canvas group to 0 stop Unity from wasting resources rendering it? Is this a valid optimization for off screen UI?
I am trying to improve the efficiency of a big UI Scroll View in my Unity app. These Scroll Views tend to be inefficient and can be prone to jittery/stuttering motion if they are taxed. I came across ...
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How to re-render the scene only when something changes in Unity?
Does Unity continuously refresh the screen or constantly render 3D objects on screen with each refresh? For example, let's say hypothetically you had a screen where you were just text messaging ...
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In a chess simulator, how to efficiently determine checkmate?
I'm working on a small C++ chess simulator game for the first time, and I have a bit of a programming dilemma. I have searched for similar questions on this site and StackOverflow, but can't find a ...
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Calculate coordinates of boundaries containing group of objects
I would like to understand how to calculate coordinates of boundaries group of objects as a parallelepiped in 3D game? Let's say for simplicity we have spheres randomly slowly moving in 3d space some ...
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Switch statement efficiency in game code
Recently, I was digging into VVVVVVV's source code that was released on GitHub by Terry Cavanagh. I went into the Game.cpp file, and found that it contains an ...
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Most efficient way to recalculate enemy A* path on the fly?
I'm working on implementing a more robust pathfinding algorithm for the enemies in my top-down shooter game, and I have the A* algorithm working, but now I need to decide when to calculate the path. ...
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Efficient way to detect when audio clip ends
In Unity, I want to trigger an event when an audio clip finishes playing. Would it be more CPU efficient to keep checking if the audio clip is playing with ...
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What's the best practice to use the pbo to upload multi textures?
I have a basic model to upload textures as shown in the following picture. I design this for several reasons: Only the primary thread owns the OpenGL context, so I choose to create buffers, map ...
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How to create a grid of 3d objects without making them actual GameObjects
Very simple question: If I'm going to be generating and placing a lot of 3d objects (in this case cubes), that are not going to be interactive, like no collision, no raycasting intersections etc. ...
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What is more efficient in Unity recorded animation or Slerp/Lerp?
What is more efficient in Unity recorded animation or Slerp/Lerp? What will be faster? It is obvious that the animation will take a lot more space.
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