Viewport Idle Animations help

[clear lake]

I'm implementing a viewport idle animation in my game very similar to alot of tower defenses. But the idle animations cause quite a bit of lag. Even just 4 frames and I begin getting short lag spikes. Does anyone know how Anime Vanguards and other TDs solve this?

TL;DR how do I optimize viewport idle animations

[ruby depot]

If it's a single frame you could play it, anchor everything then stop or something

[clear lake]

Yeah pausing the animations using AdjustSpeed() eliminates the lag completely. But i don't see why thats neccessary since Anime Vanguards proves you can have plenty of them with no lag

I just don't know how they do it

[ruby depot]

how many pages does your thing have?

i faced this problem a while ago, aand what I did was wrote a program to check if the frame was on the scrollingframe and load the viewport, otherwise dont

[clear lake]

i havent coded the inventory yet only the hotbar. It lags at around 3 viewports

[ruby depot]

and are the viewport animations lagging, or the whole game itself?

[clear lake]

The client is lagging. It experiences split second lag spike very few seconds

when i disable the viewports the lag goes away

[ruby depot]

interesting

i dont know what to say about this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[clear lake]

im gonna try and split animations into tables of positions and orientations for every limb and play those like an animation. Idk if that'll reduce lag or increase it but we'll see

[ruby depot]

yes i was gonna mention that

that should reduce it

[clear lake]

yeah probably at the very least it'll allow me to control the fps so maybe that could help

[ruby depot]

convert the animation into a keyframeanimation and then parse it into your table

[clear lake]

I did it and optimized it as best I could but even at 10 fps it still lagged as much if not more

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