#Animated Textures on a moving part causes extreme lag

1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)

river plinth
#

Not sure that it will make a performance difference cuz I'm not sure what the cause is but you could try an approach that doesn't use TweenService like caching the textures and updating by a fixed amount on the OffsetStudsU and OffsetStudsV per frame until you're >= 30 and then reset to 0 (or however your previous implementation rolls over). If TweenService creates a coroutine per tween then it's safe to assume that doing it on a single thread would be more efficient

solemn mason
#

Ok, well, I had VERY STUPIDLY done that on the server and not the client - pardon me for that, however now there are random FPS drops so it's definitely not optimized

solemn mason
solemn mason
solemn mason
#

TweenService is more efficient unless I was doing it wrong..

river plinth
#

hard disagree

solemn mason
#

I could give it another shot I guess

solemn mason
# 
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local connection = nil

local textures = {}

for i, texture in pairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
    if texture:IsA("Texture") then
        table.insert(textures, texture)
    end
end

local function update()
    task.wait(0.1)
    for i, texture in next, textures do
        texture.OffsetStudsU = texture.OffsetStudsU + 0.05
        texture.OffsetStudsV = texture.OffsetStudsV + 0.01 
    end
end

connection = runService.Heartbeat:Connect(update)

script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Destroying:Connect(function()
    connection:Disconnect()
end)

@river plinth What are your thoughts?

river plinth
#

I would not yield in the update, heartbeat already yields. If you need to run at a rate of a 10th of a second, you should do something like

local runTime = 0
local function update(dt)
  runTime += dt
  if runTime < 0.1 then return end
  runTime = 0
  for i, texture in next, textures do
    texture.OffsetStudsU = texture.OffsetStudsU + 0.05
    texture.OffsetStudsV = texture.OffsetStudsV + 0.01 
  end
end
solemn mason
#

I'll check it out tomorrow

#

Also, the issue comes that the textures cause lag as the segway is being moved, if I hit run it would have no issues

#

The CPU time spikes from 13ms in the microprofiler to 36ms with the animated texture while the segway is used/moving around

solemn mason
#

Still very bad

image.png
river plinth
#

I'm out of ideas tbh. Doesn't make sense to me why moving a texture would specifically cause a performance bottleneck during movement

#

How do you handle the physics?