Dropping system

[summer wind]

I'm trynna make a merge type game, and when dropping a cube from your inventory, it doesn't drop the tool, but instead, the part it was originally to the player's mouse location. What is the most efficient way (less lag, less computation time) to do this? I used attributes to store the part name and Parent

Also not related, but I copied the roblox Animate script and changed the animations, except it can only be seen by the player, meaning that everyone else you see will not play the anim lol

[solar jasper]

what

could you be a bit clearer

[summer wind]

Ok well

[wraith atlas]

this is called premature optimization. don't try to optimize things you don't have working yet. dropping items does not need to be optimized, it's practically impossible to make it run so poorly that it makes your game lag, short of calling game:getdescendants.

[solar jasper]

im saving that image

although that's not really optimization but more like generalization

[summer wind]

I got something that can pick up parts with a specific attribute on leftclick, and it will turn that part into a tool. I can also drop the part by moving the part in the tool to the location of the mouse target and in the original parent it was in, a folder in the workspace. I used attributes in the tool to retain the parent and name.

[solar jasper]

and trying to make clean code

[solar jasper]

wait so you already implemented it and are trying to optimize it?

[summer wind]

Yes

Cuz I don't trust attributes that much :P

[worn ivy]

** You are now Level 1! **

[solar jasper]

you really shouldn't worry about optimizing small things like this

[solar jasper]

ok are you trying to make clean code or trying to make it not lag

i don't understand

[summer wind]

Difference?

[solar jasper]

one is readable one runs fast

[summer wind]

Well who's gonna read it in-game :P

[solar jasper]

they don't necessarily correlate

[wraith atlas]

who's going to notice if your game isn't actually lagging?

[solar jasper]

you, or a member of your team might try to read it 2 weeks later and struggle

[summer wind]

Fair enough :p

[summer wind]

but what about anims?

[solar jasper]

it should show for everyone

animations played on a player character from the player's client are replicated to the server

[summer wind]

welp it doesnt somehow i dunno :(

Red POV :

blue POV :

[summer wind]

oh