Every X Seconds with Collision Cells?

If you put:

every x seconds

enemy is overlapping player

Will it use the collision cells even though it's not the top event? If not, how would one do a "check overlapping" less often than every tick while using collision cells?

Yes, it will use collision cells. The collision condition only needs to be the first condition in the event referring to those object types. "Every X seconds" is a system condition so does not refer to any object types. If you had a condition before it picking any "enemy" or "player" instances, that would force it to skip collision cells.

Ashley - perfect. thank you!

Yes, it will use collision cells. The collision condition only needs to be the first condition in the event referring to those object types. "Every X seconds" is a system condition so does not refer to any object types. If you had a condition before it picking any "enemy" or "player" instances, that would force it to skip collision cells.

is that mean to make the event like that ?

is overlapping object

every X seconds

or

every X seconds

is overlapping object

?

matrixreal, you can use lots of different types of pre-conditions providing none of them involve objects that comprise the subsequent collision check. Every x seconds, a Variable equals, and so on.

matrixreal - the second one - the first one checks every tick if its overlapping and only does the actions every x seconds, where as the 2nd one checks is overlapping every x seconds.

matrixreal - both ways use collision cells, but it is faster to check "Every X seconds" first. Then it only does the collision check on the timer. If you check the collision then have "Every X seconds", it will wastefully check the collision every tick, and ignore the result every tick apart from the times "Every X seconds" is true.

wow its amazing thanks ashley for confirm that

my result with "every 0.1 seconds + is overlap " instead of "is overlap" alone are

fsp : 55 instead of 49

cpu usage : 17% instead of 28%

collisions checks : 110 intead of 450

its clearly different and i see that we earn a huge performances