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Using AC timers for updating in-game time, or a script?
Hi!
I need to keep track of the in-game date and time.
While setting up the project, I made a timer that takes a speed (so I can change game speed easily) and fires an ActionList that updates several global variable integers. I have a script that takes those and returns a DateTime object for where that is more useful.
Is this an efficient way to do in-game time management? In terms of memory usage etc.? Or would I be better off writing a custom script that handles it in something like the Update function?
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AC Timers are updated as part of the StateHandler's Update loop, so their performance isn't anything to worry about. I don't know exactly what Actions you're running, or how often, though.
Of course, a custom, dedicated, script that can cache variables, avoid overhead, etc is always going to be more performant - but from what you've described I'd say the difference wouldn't be noticeable either way.
Unity's Profiler is always the first port-of-call if performance is a convern, however.