Particles vs Billboard

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Hello Ya’ll!

I’m not sure if this is the best place to post this, so let me know if there’s a better spot.

I’m working on a tile-based matching puzzle game. Each tile is a 2 poly plane. When I clear the tile, I want to create a little “explosion” effect. I was thinking of doing this as a ParticleSystem, but I thought creating many ParticleSystem’s at once (like 10) would be very laggy for mobile. Is there any way to use 1 ParticleSystem to to spawn particles in 10 different places?

My alternative plan is to use 2 poly planes as transparent billboards for the explosion effect. I figure this would work pretty well, but I’m not sure if having many layers of transparent polys would take more of a hit than ParticleSystem’s on mobile.

Any ideas?

Thanks! :wink:

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Anyway, I went and animated everything as billboard sprites. It turned out pretty well.

By the way, this is for my upcoming game The Crazy Program. I’m keeping a devlog for it here.

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