Description

Significance Manager Bucket System

A Powerful tool designed to help you meet performance targets with significance manager.

In any game, especially multiplayer ones with many players or AI characters, maintaining high performance is crucial. This often involves reducing scene complexity to achieve your target frame rates. With this bucket system integrated with significance manager you will be able to meet your performance targets with ease.

This system can also be used to activate/deactivate gameplay elements when players are nearby. Very flexible!

What is a bucket system?

You can imagine it as having multiple buckets you fill with water. When one bucket becomes full, you fill up the next one until you have no more buckets to fill. Instead of water we use actors or objects and we can set different sizes for the buckets.

Practical Examples:

AI Management: In a scenario with many AI characters, the system can ensure only the nearest or most critical ones are fully active, improving performance.
Multiplayer Optimization: In multiplayer games where many players might gather in one area, the system can for example limit so only the 10 nearest player characters remain fully active, preventing performance drops.
Different platforms: Only allowing the 5 nearest players to have effects played and disable the rest for windows app and only allowing 1 actor to have effects on android app.

Significance Manager Bucket System