Background Limitations
Background animations are often delivered with a huge amount of details, complex meshes and large textures. Even though background elements are typically covered by reels and other UI elements, optimizing this part of the scene could be a headache.
Uncontrolled background animations complexity can significantly affect the game performance, game loading time and memory consumption.
- Do not create too many details and complex meshes.
Animation example
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Background animation consists of huge amount of slots and meshes. Most of them will not be noticeable or even hidden under the reels/panels, especially on mobile devices. Updating and rendering all these elements will significantly affect the game performance.
Background animation is simple, looks very exciting, and will not affect the game performance.
- Do not create separate version of the background animation for each screen size/orientation. Developer will be able to align and scale animations for different screen size/orientation.
Animation example
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Background contains separate version of the animation for each screen orientation. As a result:
- unnecessary mask is used to crop the animation elements and fit the screen orientation, which also slightly affects the performance;
- duplicated keyframes are stored in the memory.
Unnecessary mask and duplicated animation removed. Background is aligned and scaled by the developer itself.
- Do not create too many versions of the background animation. Consider using skins and multiple tracks for different states to add more variety to the animation.