Scrollers
by Aditya Kulkarni · in Torque Game Builder · 06/18/2010 (4:57 am) · 1 replies
How performance intensive are scrollers? Do they eat up the ram?
I need to use a 1000 of them in one of my levels. Can I safely do that without slowing down the game?
I need to use a 1000 of them in one of my levels. Can I safely do that without slowing down the game?
Employee Melv May
Like anything else, scrollers don't incur any rendering cost when off-screen however like particles, they are updated when off-screen although they're trivial compared to particles!
Don't forget that sprites/scrollers don't use much memory at all, it's the image-maps that do. You can use the same image-map a 1000 times and it'd still only take the same amount of ram.
In the end, there's more than a single PC spec so you have to check if your game works on your lowest target machine.