#20 Optimising: Dump Ticks
Did you know that you can use the dumpticks console command to generate a list of all the objects that are ticking in your level?
This is something I run periodically to check if anything has slipped into the project that is slowing things down.
When you run the console command dumpticks it will kick out a list of all the things in your level that are ticking (to your output log or log in a cooked build). You can then go through and look for things that seem out of place; e.g assets you didn’t expect to see or things that are being used a lot more than you initially planned. You can then action on this info by turning off tick, changing it to instead run off a custom timer, optimising the functionality tied to tick etc
If you want to learn more on how the dumpticks console command works then check out my links below:
- See how in my short Youtube Video
- Read how in my short Blog Post
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