{"id":104337,"date":"2019-11-22T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354540"},"modified":"2019-11-22T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:36:00","slug":"blog-handling-unity-scene-hierarchy-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/blog-handling-unity-scene-hierarchy-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Handling Unity scene hierarchy and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, I wrote a <\/em>post <\/em><\/a>to show you <\/em>how your unity scene hierarchy is reducing the performance of your game<\/em>. That post arose awareness across many of you developers. And so, many of you asked great questions that I’ll answer in today’s entry.<\/em><\/p>\n

[The original post can be found here<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yes… I confess.<\/p>\n

The examples I often show you in my blog posts are not real-life projects. This is one of the points you have been commenting on.<\/p>\n

Ruben, this is an artificial scenario.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ruben, this doesn’t happen in games.<\/em><\/p>\n

You see, I understand. It’s easy to doubt the information I provide you when the only cases you see are extreme. I’d even rub some salt in the wound on the Reddit threads if the author wasn’t me (see how I got owned<\/a>).<\/s><\/p>\n

But here’s the thing: all the information I give you is based on the pain and gains of real-life projects<\/strong> I worked on. I do my research before I write here too.<\/p>\n

Doing research is great. But that takes time. A lot.<\/p>\n

So I won’t set up a new game for every weekly post that I publish. What I do instead is to create a small project to make a point…<\/p>\n

…A very real point that I experienced in production games.<\/p>\n

You’re never going to come across the exact dummy project in your games. But you’re likely to suffer from the issues these points reveal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And that’s what matters.<\/p>\n

So I took some of the feedback you provided for today’s post. I’ll elaborate on some of the problematic hierarchy patterns you’ll commonly see in production games. We will address unity scene hierarchy bottlenecks based on the tools<\/a> I gave you in the last article:<\/p>\n