Help me optimize the enemies in my tower defense game!

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#1

I just started making a tower defense game and I’m trying to code the enemy movement but I ran into a bit of an interesting problem
I made it so all the positions and things are calculated on the server but I need to send a remote event to the client to render it.

Right now I’m sending an UnreliableRemoteEvent every time EACH enemy is updated (RunService.Stepped), so for 5 enemies, I would send 5 events basically every frame.
I don’t think this is very good for performance, so I was wondering if I should send just 1 event, with a table of data, or if there is any other way to simplify communication between the client and the server.

This is my current server code:

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Remember that this is called every frame.

Just as a side note I was also wondering if there is another way I could move the enemies, maybe to have better performance or to send less data between the client and the server.

Any advice would help,
Thanks!

#2

Are you sure you need a remote event? I guess it’ll look smoother but I mean performance is more important imo.

#3

I don’t really know…
Do you mean tweening it on the client or smth because I just don’t really think that would work since I the server may become desynchronised.
Or do you mean moving the parts on the server because I’m pretty sure that that causes a lot of lag but idk.
What would you do?

#4

Astroforce devs made a guide on how they created their npcs to be performant. Could help point you in some good directions.

#5

Thank you so much!
I just had a quick look at this and i’m sure it’ll be very helpful!

Also I know this is slightly off-topic but since i’m using CFrames and not humanoid:moveTo, how would I go about animating the character?
I thought about using inverse kinematics, but i’m guessing that’s a bit to complex and i’m just overthinking it a bit!