Sprite sheets vs Native Animation Performance

Does anyone know which is less taxing?

Sprite sheet animation or
Native unity, position, rotation animation.

Thanks

 

Are you ever in a position where either choice is going to be your bottleneck? you're throwing 1000s at the screen at once? If not then it won't actually be the issue, rendering will.

 

Sprite sheet animation is less process intensive, as it's an internal shifting of UV coords on a sprite sheet.
But doing it with translations/rotations/scales will use less memory.

But the differences are incredibly small in the grand scheme of things, perhaps if you were trying to optimize it to run on a Gameboy Advanced, it might matter.

 

Great, thanks guys. Im trying to pick between them and was wondering if this would be a deciding factor. Apparently not!