Poor animation performance

[WOLFxxxxxx]

Tested versions

4.3

System information

Windows 10

Issue description

The animation performance is very bad. The rest of the engines are 5 times better in performance Please do well 🤕

Steps to reproduce

Q

Minimal reproduction project (MRP)

anm.zip

[AThousandShips]

You already reported exactly this before:

• https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/90943

Why did you open a new report?

See https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/90943#issuecomment-2067741724 for more details

[WOLFxxxxxx]

I added a ZIP project

[AThousandShips]

That should have been added to the original instead, but I don't think this changes anything, there was already an explanation there in the original

[WOLFxxxxxx]

My game development depends on animation optimization

[AThousandShips]

Yes, that's understood, but the cause of this issue was already explained in the original issue report, see the comment I linked, is that not relevant? If so then please explain how it is different from that

[WOLFxxxxxx]

I'm sorry, I don't speak English very well.

[AThousandShips]

That's okay, please use translation software or have someone help you, but it doesn't help if you ignore the things people tell you

Please use things like google translate and ask questions if there's something you don't understand (I used it on the original issue to my native language and I could understand it very well, and my language is a very small one so it should work for your language as well)

[WOLFxxxxxx]

The old report was stopped without solving the problem

You open a new report

[AThousandShips]

The old report was stopped without solving the problem

No, the explanation was given, please read this https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/90943#issuecomment-2067741724

You don't open a new report just because the answer wasn't what you wanted

[WOLFxxxxxx]

Thank you for your help so I can repeat this plan again

[JekSun97]

@WOLFxxxxxx There is no doubt that Godot's skeletal animation is not the most productive, but it is one of the most versatile. This also depends on your equipment, my FPS is stable

[JekSun97]

I doubled the number of skeletons for a total of 200 skeletons and the fps remained stable

[AThousandShips]

200 skeletons might not necessarily be something I'd expect to run well generally, so it managing that is IMO pretty impressive, and not at all a sign of the engine being in desperate need of improvement. We can always do better but 200 skeletons is far above a minimum reasonable limit to me, assuming you don't have the most brutal newest hardware.

Edit: Testing this myself it struggles a bit with 200 skeletons but might just be other limitations right now my computer has been running a bit slow, but it runs perfectly fine with the original 100

So I'd say this is not a massively critical issue but rather areas where performance can be improved, and that in a lot of cases other methods for improving scaling of entities should be used if you need a lot of animated figures, things like using the servers directly or using multimesh etc., I'm not sure what the reasonable performance limits are for these cases when doing things with no optimizations or tricks to improve things used at all

[JekSun97]

@AThousandShips I noticed an error in the console when duplicating a scene with a skeleton, should I open an error about this?

[AThousandShips]

That's a reported case already I think, related to instanced scenes and not skeletons necessarily, search for it and see

[WOLFxxxxxx]

The problem is with the CPU

[WOLFxxxxxx]

There is a bottleneck

gpu 18% cpu 31%

fps 15 - 30 ?????

[AThousandShips]

Yes, that's what you were told in the original issue report, and you were told how to go forward with that

[WOLFxxxxxx]

https://guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation/samples/multithread/

[Calinou]

Closing in favor of https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/92693, which is more detailed and actionable.