It all runs off the same animator and would be just one render call. The idea then would become you call a pallet swap for the new clothes. I have done the pallet swap but never set it up to write clothes for example over another pallet instead of swapping out colors. Let me look and see if I can find another tutorial. The only pallet swap tutorial I have ever seen is on but I have the source code.

What I would suggest instead if you want to go the route of combining textures to create single render call that you do it through a sprite palette swap but instead of swapping colors you are using one sprite pack to pack over top the other. Then you are getting a draw call forever layer.Ĭombining two sprites on the fly using something like PixelArray is extremely costly. This may not be possible if the sheets are too big or too many. The way I am doing it because it comes from all one sheet is one draw call. I would be curious about the overhead compared to using multiple animators. I guess you would load the texture pack from resource then match the name of the dolls current texture with the one from the overlay pack. As long as the sprite names are kept to a system like idle_01 and so on. You could easily do the route you are suggesting. I dont know what a TextureArray is in terms of this but it seemed to be a solution mentioned in passing on StackOverflow (id have to dig to find it again) and the result should be cutting down on draw calls a good bit.Īpologies for the long comment, i realize your tutorial was intended for beginners and for that purpose its a good tutorial, i was just wondering if you happened to have any information about the above.

If you have any information on how to combine those two sprites to be drawn by a single renderer but allow switching of the top layer of clothing at runtime, that would be amazing, but im not sure its possible. I draw the clothing sprites using varying alphas for each layer of clothing so a pallette swap shader can allow different colors per clothing item within a single texture. Ive been looking around for some other solutions, as ive tried to cut down on the number of renderers per player, and saw someone mention using TextureArrays, but i havent been able to find any follow up information on what that entails and how its done.Ĭurrently i have a base body animation set similar to yours, and overlay a full body set of clothing and items using the sprite matching mentioned above. I think typically the advice Ive seen here is to have a single animator for the 'body' or base sprite and then load up other spritesheets with the slices named the same as the body sheet and read the name from the body renderer to set subsequent pieces to match, avoiding the work of setting up high amounts of animators or animations for override controllers.

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