Animators and dirtying UI

[Neonlyte]

@Moostauche

Apologies, quite new to this and I’m working on UI at the moment (dialogue system with animated character panels). Would you say that Animator is OK now!

Not really. See the response I got from Unity staff (kudos to them BTW):

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out.

While it is true that the Canvas dirtying is fixed which was the big performance issue but Verts and Materials still get dirty. So they would still be iterated on resulting in a performance loss. We’ve discussed this with the developers and have opted for keeping the warning in the tutorial as it still applies, just to a lesser extent.

Hope that helps, if you have any further questions feel free to reach out.

Cheers,
Kipras
Customer QA Team

This does gives some lead on where the performance is lost. I may do more experiment on this if I have time, but you can do the same. After a few tries I ended up not using Animator because I prefer scripting for consistent and reusable behavior (plus I suck at keying animations), so I now only use Animator as a WYSIWYG mockup and then implement the animation in code.