koobas.hobune.stream
Save battery on mobile
What's the best way to save battery life on a very simple game? I lowered graphics settings to the minimum and and I capped the framerate to 60 fps but the game still burns 1% of the battery per minute.
Any advice?
Define "simple". If you need 60 redraws per second it can't be that simple ^^
It's simple but fast paced, as I now replied below. By simple I mean that there is an animated gameobject that moves on the screen using the physic engineto get to other animated objects and pick them up
You should use 30 fps instead, it's not that noticeable and if you want to lower the energy draw that's a way to cut your battery leeching. Also you might look into optimizing your scrips, lowering pixel counts where you don't need them in your textures, etc.
I lowered the framerate to 45-50 fps, it's a fast paced game and the difference between that and 30 fps i very noticeable :) The scripts are optimized and and no "find" methods or similar are in any Update. About lowering pixel counts, well... all the textures of my game are well packed in a 56$$anonymous$$b file and there are no 3d models in the only scene the game is made of. I'd like to ask you what other optimizations I could do to the scripts? Btw thanks for your answer!
Setting the rendering path to "Vertex lit" seemed to decrease battery usage by 50% on some devices. This choice was suitable to my game because I'm not using any light, shadows or lightmap.
If you want to use this option in your game I reccomend to do various tests to verify it's effectivity.
