koobas.hobune.stream
Storing Positions of gameobjects
Hi.
What is the best way to store the positions for 1 second of around 50 gameobjects that are moving, and then clean it up after 1 second, and so on. Dictionaries? Can they handle so many entries? I need this for multiplayer lag compensation.
Thanks for help.
If you know the exact amount of positions (50 as you say) and that amount is not going to change, just an array. It's the fastest. C#:
private Vector3[] positions = new Vector3[50];
The problem is that , I have 50 objects and each one of them would need to have their position stored for 1 second, multiple times per second. $$anonymous$$y concern is the performance, I don't know how much entries arrays/dictionaries can take in.
So, you are storing the position of 50 objects many times per second. I think I get it now. That means as many arrays as those multiple times. I don't know then. I would still go for the array because objects could share the same index between different arrays, and you could have a buffer of arrays (many_times_per_second arrays) to avoid the memory mess (lists are pretty cool with memory but heavier on cpu). I believe Lists and dictionaries can handle that many entries, but I think it would be too cpu consu$$anonymous$$g.
Dictionaries can handle any number of entries, they are also very fast at retrieval. Each of your gameobjects should have a unique ID for the key. To keep it tight I would probably just store the transform.Position as Vector3 so you would be storing a assuming you use an int as an ID
Thanks for letting me know, I am storing time and vector3.
