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Is it good to sort objects list before every rendering?

I need to render a "tile" game, which are like these: or or I don't know how to render them in correct order. I intend to perform a sorting operator before every rendering (depending on their ...
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How to generate portal zones?

I'm developing a portal-based scene manager. Basically all it does is to check the portals against the camera frustum, and render their associated portal zones accordingly. Is there any way my editor ...
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Optimizing updating thousands of enemies? (Or break up the enemies that need updated?)

Thanks in advance for wanting to help. I have an array of (right now) ~1000 enemies that I need to update every frame. The issue, I believe, is mainly brute-force checks. I've profiled my ...
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4answers
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Smoothing found path on grid

I implemented several approaches such as A* and Potential fields for my tower defense game. But I want smooth paths, first I tried to find path on very small grid ( 5x5 pixels per tile) but it is ...
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7answers
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Optimizing gravity calculations

I've got a bunch of objects of varying size and velocity which gravitate towards each other. On every update, I have to go over every object and add up the forces due to gravity of every other object. ...
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6answers
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Spell casting - How to optimize damage per second

Imagine we have a wizard that knows a few spells. Each spell has 3 attributes: Damage, cool down time, and a cast time. Pretty standard RPG stuff. Cooldown time: the amount of time (t) it takes ...