big tileset or single image for actor tecture?

Question

Hello!

I want to create simple RPG game. I want to create base actor which will contain common functions. On that basis i will create a player character and enemies, but do not know how to achieve maximum performance:
Is it better to create one big tileset with player and enemy textures and use it or better slice this big tilemap in to single textures and use them?

I will be thankful for any information ))

Answer 1

single texture "atlas" useful for optimization using batching, but difficult for management.
multiple textures are useful for management, but bad for optimization.
You can use 2 ways:
1. Don't worry about performance until you get problem with it, and when you can get it, just join them into 1 Texture splitted to with AtlasTexture
2. Start with 1 Texture file (2048x2048px or 1024x1024px or 512x512px or 256x256px) size and split it at start with AtlasTexture. My tip is here: decide before start where in Altas you store player animations, where enemies, where objects.

more about batching -> https://docs.godotengine.org/ru/stable/tutorials/optimization/batching.html