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Support / Fastest way to swap animations?

« on: February 22, 2012, 04:42:25 am »

I have a game similar to bejeweled that I am working on.  I originally had it in 3D, but have recently converted over to 2D.  I have a bunch of cubes that make up the board and each cube has an idle state  image (Single), infected state (animated sprite) and a dead state (single image again).  When my cubes are destroyed I call the below code.  When I was doing this in 3D before, I would just change the material on the renderer and it went very quickly.  Now it seems since I have changed over to 2D, I am getting a huge performance hit when calling the function below.

When I comment out the "anim.Play" line, the performance hit disappears.  What is the best way to change back to my idle image across all blocks destroyed.  I am not allocating any memory.  When I destroy an object, I simply scale the object down, call the method below and then scale it back up.  I also keep track of the id's so I dont have to have 2DToolkit perform a lookup by the string, but that didnt seem to increase performance much.  Guess my overall question is what is the proper way to do this without taking a hit.  Whats happeneing is when I am destroying like 8 cubes at once, it just sits there for literally a couple noticable seconds before continuing.  One last thing I have recently upgraded to 3.5 and not sure if there are any known issues right now with 2dtoolkit and the new version.  I can't say if this was happening in the older version since I have recently changed over to 2D.  Any ideas?

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    void SetRandomcolor()
    {
        ColorIndex = _boardMgr.GetWeightedRandomColor();
       
         anim.Play(_boardMgr.MyBlockColors[ColorIndex].IdleAnimationIndex);

        _boardMgr.MyBlockColors[ColorIndex].NumOnBoard++;
        _boardMgr.PopulateProbabilities();

    }