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Which is faster: AudioClips or GameObjects with Audio attached?
Hello, I've got a gun script, the prefab has not an AudioSource attached, every time I hit "Fire1" it shoots, and instantiate a gameobject with an audio clip attached to it. It works fine. This is the point in question:
var holdSound : GameObject
if (Input.GetButton("Fire1"))
{
//Shoot part...
if (bulletSound)
holdSound = Instantiate(bulletSound, bulletSpawn.transform.position, bulletSpawn.transform.rotation);
}
The question is: It would be more convenient for my code optimization to attach an AudioSource to the gun and play AudioClips directly without Instantiating gameobjects everytime i hit fire?
For example:
if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
{
//Shoot Part...
audio.PlayOneShot(bulletSound);
}
What's the difference between both methods?
Thanks.
Instantiate takes quite a bit of resources, so making the gun play the sound is the better way to do it. Although I would use audio.play instead of PlayOneShot, since the latter is not really better in terms of resources than instantiate, because it is more or less the same thing.
