Two small questions about performance

Hello everyone,

Coming from C2, I refrained to use the SetColor effect on my (numerous) spritefonts since I noticed it was quite taxing on the CPU. In general I used as little effects as possible to run on older configurations.

Now I see in C3 you can Set the Color directly as an Appearance action. I read it is more like 'Tint' than 'SetColor' but for spritefonts it's perfect.

Is it costly in terms of performance to use this feature ?

In my case I can have hundreds of spritefonts visible at the same time, either black or greyed. The text is always a figure from 0 to 9 and I used to have the two colors in my spritefont sheet with 0-9 being the black numbers and A-J being the grey numbers as a workaround to save on CPU. Setting the color the new way would definitely be a more flexible way to do it.

My second question is unrelated and is regarding Picking.

Would you say this :

is much more efficient than this ?

I used to do it the second way but I recently realized that grouping all the different checks in one single Picking could maybe be more efficient since every Sprites would need to only be checked and picked once. Do you think that's true ?

Thanks for your opinion :)

Have a nice day