Question about convex and non convex performance.

Just want to know which one has the best performance. I know it's probably specific to how the meshes are constructed, but lets say that i have a platform relatively flat and boxy. You know how it makes a more solid lets say collider if i select convex, polycount goes down and the like. But is it better for performance? It has a polygon limit so i'm guessing it has some overhead on runtime?

 

Convex is simpler and therefore has better performance.

--Eric

 

Right to the point. Thanks.

 

Lots of maths tricks can be used with convex to speed stuff up.

 

I was wondering because sometimes, when something has a limit, it's to do with performance on current hardware.

 

A limit is almost always because there's some trick/shortcut that can be done that wouldn't work without that limit. Convex colliders have a 255 polygon limit, and the number 255 should be familiar to anyone who knows how computers work...clearly there's some byte indexing going on that helps somehow.

--Eric

 

*raises hand* 8bit! Or a byte! from 0 to sixt... 255!