BGE Animations: Now animations are only updated based on the set animation speed. This offers a significant performance increase (about 2x fps in my animation stress tests) for cases such as the defaults: 60fps logic and 30fps animations. This means that animations now only have to be updated half the time. I've also added Animations as a profiling category. This is the time spent in Blender's animation code, and not in the BL_ShapeDeformer (the mesh deformation). I'd like the add the deformation too, but right now it's counted in the rasterizer, and I don't see an obviously clean way to have it counted as animation instead. I'll investigate more.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_KetsjiEngine.h b/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_KetsjiEngine.h
index 8cd6fdb8f5f..89419bb7773 100644
--- a/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_KetsjiEngine.h
+++ b/source/gameengine/Ketsji/KX_KetsjiEngine.h
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ private:
 	double				m_frameTime;//discrete timestamp of the 'game logic frame'
 	double				m_clockTime;//current time
 	double				m_previousClockTime;//previous clock time
+	double				m_previousAnimTime; //the last time animations were updated
 	double				m_remainingTime;
 
 	static int				m_maxLogicFrame;	/* maximum number of consecutive logic frame */
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ private:
 		tc_first = 0,
 		tc_physics = 0,
 		tc_logic,
+		tc_animations,
 		tc_network,
 		tc_scenegraph,
 		tc_sound,