How do I optimise this?

Hi Guys,

I'm doing a simple shooter and I already see some prformance issues... Could you take a look on this one please.

This screen has been taken while all enemies were dead so the "isDead" boolean is true. I also checked with the "qq" variable if it searches for the path for dead enemies - and it's not. So the only one thing here the engine is doing is just loop through enemies (100 objects) and check the isDead boolean.

As far as I know there is nothing (or almost nothing) faster than checking a boolean value. And it takes 3 to 4 % of my i7 CPU O.o.

Can this be optimised somehow?

"Move along path" should be in event 3, not 2. Not sure if this will improve performance, but it is incorrect at the moment.

Ah that is true. Thanks — However this doesn't solve the performence problem. Engine is not even passing the condition, so it looks like family SOL/loop is slow.

You could try a "For each Enemy". Sometimes you end up picking more objects than you expect, so "Event 0.5" AND "For each", then move the rest to a sub-event.

I tried that earlier, I thought maybe engine is looping enemy for every condition or something... but no - same result.

I just realized that I was looking all that time at how to optimize "Enemies track player" group... and just noticed that it's wrong group... the one which brings problems is "Enemies attack player".

And I even pointed that with a red dot on the screenshot haha... time to go sleep.

BTW: The "Enemies track player" uses 0.1% so checking boolean values is indeed as fast as expected