Looking for some help from an experienced 2D developer!
I’m new to Unity and testing a few things out for a 2D pixel game. I’ve noticed that my test project exhibits a bit of choppiness/motion blur/frame skipping, I’ve played with various settings and have not been able to find a solution. I’m testing on an iPhone 6, so there shouldn’t by any resource issues.
For my test, I compared the movement of the infamous flappy bird scroller, using two sprites from the game. In my test you simply tap and the bird goes up. I’ve posted a copy of the project below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxlulphkhtp771t/Smooth-bird-test.zip?dl=0
A few notes:
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Tap and hold the screen to make the bird go up, does this seem choppy to you? It’s almost as if the sprite is skipping frames?
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To jump I’m using “RigidBody2d.velocity = new Vector2 (0, 135);” in the Update() method. This is the correct method for this type of movement from the tutorials I’ve gone through so far.
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I’m using an orthographic camera with a size of 128. Sprites are set to a pixels per unit of 1. I’m shooting for a “game” resolution of 144 x 256, the same as flappy bird.
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I’ve played with point and bilinear filtering on the sprites, doesn’t seem to affect it, just the quality(sharpness) of the rendered sprite.
I did a screen recording of flappy bird vs this app via quick time. Looking at the recording frame by frame, I noticed that the sprite movement of the bird in flappy bird is about 3-4 pixels. In this app it jumps as much as 10+. It is almost as if the sprite movement is at a lower frame rate than the game is running at (60fps?) - like it is not as “smooth”.
I must be missing something here, but it’s not obvious to me. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks
-emde
