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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: Splankton on October 24, 2014, 12:19:04 PM

Title: Baking animation and particles best way?
Post by: Splankton on October 24, 2014, 12:19:04 PM

Hi,
Probably an obvious answer,  but on mobile, which would be the most efficient and best for performance out of,
1. Creating a model and moving it using a move action and applying a particle system.
Or
2. Bake everything (animations and particles) in 3ds max and importing that into unity and just simply running the baked animation.

I'm guessing 2 would be best. 
But I just want to make sure before I do it.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Title: Re: Baking animation and particles best way?
Post by: djaydino on October 24, 2014, 01:35:52 PM

maybe This can help you : http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/iphone-InternalProfiler.html (http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/iphone-InternalProfiler.html) so you can test both situations, how much performance you lose.
The particles will still give a lot of triangle/verts i think so it might be that you don't lose much, but i have not tried that yet.

best way is to try it out :)
or search the unity forums about that.

Title: Re: Baking animation and particles best way?
Post by: Splankton on October 25, 2014, 05:43:57 PM

OK thanks, I'll test both ways.  Surely though getting Unity to play a particle animation wouldn't be much of a performance hit as a particle system calculating every frame?
It will be interesting to see how much of a difference there is in terms of performance and also I bet you can get nicer results using Max's particles.