text candy performance

Particle Candy / Text Candy
#1

Hi

I’m working on a project with several textfields which get updated very frequently. Unfortunately this takes a lot of performance. I’ve read that editing bitmap fonts is much faster than editing normal textfields.

I would like to know how the performance of textcandy is compared with normal textfields. Would it make sense to buy textcandy just because of its performance? I’m not really interested in texteffects. [import]uid: 10820 topic_id: 11604 reply_id: 311604[/import]

#2

There is no general answer to this, it just depends on the amount of text to update and even the true type font used. Updating large amounts of text within, say, an enter frame loop, is always performance intensive, but using bitmap fonts tend to result in better performance than using vector fonts. [import]uid: 10504 topic_id: 11604 reply_id: 42460[/import]