caching 2d toolkit commands

[meta87]

I've been using 2d Toolkit for a mobile game and so far everything is working great. Performance even better than I'd hoped.

One thing that I'm curious about is if it's beneficial to cache different commands in the start function instead of calling something like Play("animation") directly in update. I was reading on Unity's forum that calling strings frequently can be slow. I'm already doing this with thisTransform = this.transform for example.

Thanks!

[unikronsoftware]

You can cache animation names / sprite names -> ids if you'd like to save the lookup. Calling strings frequently isn't going to be as fast as that, but as with everything else it depends on what else you're doing at the time.
If you want to you can do this like so:
int animationId = animatedSprite.GetClipIdByName("...");
and call
animatedSprite.Play(animationId);
later.

In 1.90 final, you willalso be able to do something like this
tk2dSpriteAnimationClip clip = animatedSprite.GetClipByName("...");
and call play with this.
The advantage to this is that your clips could be from different animation libraries.

Once again though, this is only necessary if it is becoming a bottleneck..

[meta87]

Thanks a lot for the quick response and good info.