Lag Spikes when Instantiating new Objects?

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Hello all!

I’m having a very weird issue. The following code has not been altered lately (besides debug attempts), yet now it is causing severe lag spikes when called. A call to this function is performed every 2 seconds and the game freezes up when this is done. This never happened before.

Is there some quirk to :Clone() that causes lag? Could it be the position randomizer?

Here is the code:

local newFly = script.Firefly:Clone()

local base = RenderedPlot

local newPos = Vector3.new(
	math.random(base.Position.X - (base.Size.X / 2), base.Position.X + (base.Size.X / 2)),
	base.Position.Y + base.Size.Y + 5,
	math.random(base.Position.Z - (base.Size.Z / 2), base.Position.Z + (base.Size.Z / 2))
)

newFly.Parent = flyHolder
newFly.Position = newPos

local newSize = Vector3.new(
	math.random(5, 10) / 10, 
	math.random(5, 10) / 10, 
	math.random(5, 10) / 10
)

newFly.Size = newSize

I am annoyed that this is occurring out of nowhere. Any feedback appriciated.

2

Parenting the object after setting all of the properties has performance benefits, maybe you could try doing that?

3

That didn’t seem to help, unfortunately.

This is the microprofiler. That spike you see is every time the function is called.

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4

Is it possible that you can attach a .rbxm file with the assets needed for this script to work? Alternatively, you could try testing this by itself in a separate game to see if it’s what’s causing the problem.

5

Ill describe how the system operates:

The game initializes with a core script that loads required modules and calls a prewarm() function. This loads the assets.

The game then runs the launch() function. Starting the execution of each script on its own thread.

One of the scripts that gets launched is a PlotManager. Which spawns said fireflies every x seconds.

The code that you see there sits inside of a function that spawns the firefly.

So theoretically there shouldn’t be any reason this is freezing the game. One theory I have is that there are too many objects in the game simultaneously. But all of these objects are anchored. Very bizarre.

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