fading alpha renderer.a vs shader performance

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Hey guys,

Just a quick performance question i was interested in. Whenever i’ve had to fade objects in and out i’ve always done a modification of the renderer property by assigning a new Color to it over time in a while loop (coroutine). What i was wondering is if it has a big performance hit if done to several objects on screen? I’ve done some testing on iPad 2/3 and some Android devices and it seems fine.

Would it be better if i had a shader handle the alpha value for me? And just pass in a new value to the shader over time?

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It’s possible that you could make those operations faster, but I don’t anticipate this would be considered a “low-hanging fruit” when it comes to optimizing performance. There are probably other issues you can improve more easily.