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Is it good to have many scripts?
Hey! I am making a game and I have 11 scripts and I'm not done yet! So I was wondering is it good to have many scripts in a game... I mean will it make it slower or something? Will it affect its efficiency? If yes, how many scripts is a good number so the game won't be slower?
Typically the number of scripts will have no impact on performance. Good OOP practice says many small scripts is bigger than a single large script.
Performance comes primarily from the algorithms you choose.
Good to hear that many small scripts are better, because most of my scripts are no more than 30-40 lines!
It's absolutely ok if you have small separate scripts, as long as they are doing different roles. Once I had one script for everything and eventually it became a 1500 lines monster. It was a real pain. By the way, you can create classes for different tasks and hold their instances in one controller script. That works ok too.
@cgeopapa Each script should be just long enough to do a single job, and no longer. I have some that come in at 10 lines, including white space (A $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour with a single function call in Awake). Others, doing more complicated tasks come in at several hundred lines. $$anonymous$$uch more then that and I start to get nervous and refractor out.
There are probably legitimate uses for longer scripts. I just haven't found any yet.
There shouldn't be difference in performance, just make sure to remove all empty event callbacks (OnGUI, LateUpdate, Update, etc) from scripts.
