[SOLVED] Performance and layers

commention · April 11, 2020, 1:46pm

I’ll be using 2 different layers on my project in addition to default layers of playcanvas like world, depth, skybox, ui etc.

I wonder using different layers affects performance? Or is it only a sort algorithm and has nothing to do with performance?

Leonidas · April 11, 2020, 1:58pm

Hi @commention,

So yeah, it mostly won’t have any significant performance overhead unless you are using a really big number of layers.

There is a number of loops running on the layer’s mesh instances list for culling, sorting and rendering (and also any custom callbacks registered). So the overhead is mostly management for that.

commention · April 11, 2020, 1:59pm

Thank you for your quick response! This forum is amazing because of you!