would it be more efficient to change tint colour or swap out multiple sprites?

[Le Twitch]

there will be 2 sprites (they're just squares) and some text that constantly need to change colours. so would it be better to change the tint or use a spritesheet with the different coloured sprites? 

[valueerror]

as far as i know  tinting is very expensive..  i guess it depends on how often you change the sprite..   

[Le Twitch]

as far as i know  tinting is very expensive..  i guess it depends on how often you change the sprite..   

 

quite often i would have to say

[lewster32]

Switching the sprite frame if using a sprite sheet or atlas is much faster than tinting, but you lose the flexibility of being able to tint to arbitrary shades. For what it's worth, tinting is still very fast in most cases; here's a demo I did of a possible future pixi/Phaser addon which redraws a BitmapText object and tints every character individually at full speed even running in canvas on a iPhone: http://rotates.org/phaser/bitmaptextcolor.htm

[Le Twitch]

Switching the sprite frame if using a sprite sheet or atlas is much faster than tinting, but you lose the flexibility of being able to tint to arbitrary shades. For what it's worth, tinting is still very fast in most cases; here's a demo I did of a possible future pixi/Phaser addon which redraws a BitmapText object and tints every character individually at full speed even running in canvas on a iPhone: http://rotates.org/phaser/bitmaptextcolor.htm

 

wow that's pretty cool. thanks for the help. you're always so helpful =]