model:PivotTo() vs workspace:BulkMoveTo()

[Leviikori (Lev)]

Heya,

Just wondering if anyone knows the difference in use-cases for PivotTo and BulkMoveTo. I currently have a system that clones a bunch (hundreds) of models and places them around the map. Should I be using PivotTo or BulkMoveTo?

Thanks.

[pankii_kust (Mylo)]

PivotTo should be reasonable enough to be used cuz you didn’t set the CFrame constantly every frame, BulkMoveTo’s case is kind of rare and if u use this even with FireCFrameChanged set, it still offers nothing different

[wiremass (wire)]

If this work isn’t being at a high interval, PivotTo works fine. You can check out this conversation about the two methods:

@tnavarts

You don’t need to avoid PivotTo, it’s smart enough to take advantage of the thing being welded into an assembly and smart enough to use the BulkMoveTo movement approach. Though it has a small amount of overhead because it can’t assume anything about the model setup ahead of time.

The maximum possible perf is using BulkMoveTo on assembly root parts at the expense of significantly complicated code. But unless you need to be moving thousands of assemblies every frame PivotTo on welded Models is entirely reasonable.

[real_ryanx (Ryan)]

if you have to update the cframes each frame and there are a lot of models then use BulkMoveTo, otherwise PivotTo