Hello, sorry for the wait between devlogs! I’m going to try to push out one every few days from now on if I can manage it. Without further ado, let’s get into it!

So as you may or may not know, Vortrus is my first real game and as such I’ve made a lot of “rookie” mistakes while developing it. Many of these were simple fixes, and frankly this is no exception. For example, during early development, I was changing the alpha of my UI to 0 in order to “hide” pause menus and such. This was obviously ineffective (very much so! I could just turn the gameobject off…). Even THAT, however, is trumped by my latest mistake: instead of simply using the loading function again on the scene to reset everything, I simply wrote a function to reset EVERY single gameobject.

This is obviously feasible… I simply put a destroy function on every script of every object that destroyed it when a certain static variable was triggered. But obviously, this added a lot of overhead.

The Solution

The solution to this dilemma was simple: I simply reloaded the scene. This cut down significantly on overhead. It is simple, elegant, and I CANNOT believe I overlooked this simple mistake. Oh well, it won’t be sneaking into any future projects, that’s for sure.

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