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Cutting down on actionlist lag
Hi there, this is something I've been pondering for a while so I gotta try to explain the best I can...
So, I have an interaction actionlist which is run when loading every NPC interact menu - every time an NPC is approached, a menu is loaded depending on their name, and they all run the same interaction actionlist within it... but it is MASSIVE and i mean massive. My game will briefly largely drop in framerate when the NPC is approached as it goes through all these checks, that, most of the time, will have nothing to do with them.
It has at least 50 different variable checks which is made up of checks for when certain menu elements should appear throughout the story (i.e. if you're on mission 3 then certain menu elements appear for certain characters...there are 36 missions to check), all put into 1 actionlist to save me from making separate actionlists for each character.
But I was wondering, would it cut down the lag if I actually made an interaction actionlist for each character instead of everything being in 1 actionlist, so that when it loads a certain NPC menu, it only loads their stuff? So I could make an actionlist for every character, put in only the checks that are relevant to that character and make them run their individual actionlist on approach instead of the all-in-one actionlist. The all-in-one actionlist is very large so I wanted to make sure it would work before I committed to this.
I hope this makes sense, it's kinda complicated in my head. Sorry for how long this was...
What do you think?
So, I have an interaction actionlist which is run when loading every NPC interact menu - every time an NPC is approached, a menu is loaded depending on their name, and they all run the same interaction actionlist within it... but it is MASSIVE and i mean massive. My game will briefly largely drop in framerate when the NPC is approached as it goes through all these checks, that, most of the time, will have nothing to do with them.
It has at least 50 different variable checks which is made up of checks for when certain menu elements should appear throughout the story (i.e. if you're on mission 3 then certain menu elements appear for certain characters...there are 36 missions to check), all put into 1 actionlist to save me from making separate actionlists for each character.
But I was wondering, would it cut down the lag if I actually made an interaction actionlist for each character instead of everything being in 1 actionlist, so that when it loads a certain NPC menu, it only loads their stuff? So I could make an actionlist for every character, put in only the checks that are relevant to that character and make them run their individual actionlist on approach instead of the all-in-one actionlist. The all-in-one actionlist is very large so I wanted to make sure it would work before I committed to this.
I hope this makes sense, it's kinda complicated in my head. Sorry for how long this was...
What do you think?
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