Hi, im doing an adventure game and im using bitmaskes for abotu everything, liek walkability, lights, shadows,, all the stuff... are any drawn backs using this and is teher a better way to do it ??

thks

akura

The tradeoff when using bitmasks as opposed to separate variables for each energy is memory space over speed. Using bitmasks makes good use of memory, but it takes a couple of operations to read & write. Using variables is very fast, but wasteful of memory if your variables only have a couple of states and don't use the full dynamic range of their type.

All programming is tradeoffs. Well, that and finesse. Style. Pressure. OK, but tradeoffs are a big part of it.