Optimizing and other questions.

Unity Engine
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So I’m working on a small project, something reasonable that I believe I can finish fairly easily. But I have a few questions I hope someone could shed some light on.

First off the game map is going to be based on a 2D array.
And from there I can represent level pieces as simple prefabs sized to fit within a 1x1 square in world space.
e.g. map[5,3] = prefab_tree;

Would the best way to do this be instantiating everything? I tried instantiating larger numbers of objects as simple as cubes and I saw a big hit to performance, any ideas about that?

I was hoping unity would be able to handle a pretty large world made of lots of these smaller cubes. I would just like to know what would be the most efficient method for doing this so I can keep a decent frame rate even on iPlatforms.

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Hi, welcome to the forum!

If you have lots of similar objects, you can often get better performance by rendering them with Graphics.DrawMesh rather than creating a GameObject for each one.

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Thanks for the response!

Drawing the meshes directly will help greatly. This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

I’ll give it a whirl and let you know how it goes.

I was afraid for a moment this thread would slip away forever. :slight_smile: