Multi tool use

Show images faster

I want to show a list of achievements each one with a different image. I've downloaded the images from the server but they appear very slow in my game. Is it a way to show them faster? Thank you in advance.

This is my code:

public GameObject filePrefab;
public GameObject contentRef;

private Texture2D downloadedImages;

public void AchievementsList_Bttn()
{
new GameSparks.Api.Requests.LogEventRequest ()
.SetEventKey ("LISTACHIEVEMENTS")
.Send ((response) => {

if(!response.HasErrors)
{
Debug.Log("List Achivements Loaded Sucessfully...");
GSData scriptData = response.ScriptData;
List<GSData> achievements = scriptData.GetGSDataList("achievements"); //retrieve the array of objects
for (int i = 0; i < achievements.Count; i++)
{
string name = achievements[i].GetString("name");
string description = achievements[i].GetString("description");
int? currency1Award = achievements[i].GetInt("currency1Award");
bool? earned = achievements[i].GetBoolean("earned");

GameObject tempFile = Instantiate (filePrefab, contentRef.transform);
Text tempName = tempFile.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>();
Text tempDescription = tempFile.transform.GetChild(1).GetComponent<Text>();
Text tempCurrency1Award = tempFile.transform.GetChild(2).GetComponent<Text>();
RawImage tempImage = tempFile.transform.GetChild(3).GetComponent<RawImage>();

tempName.text = name;
tempDescription.text = description;
tempCurrency1Award.text = currency1Award.ToString();

DownloadtheFiles(name, tempImage);
}
}
});
}

public void DownloadtheFiles(string name, RawImage tempImage)
{
new GetDownloadableRequest()
.SetShortCode(name+"_icon")
.Send((response) => {
if(!response.HasErrors)
{
StartCoroutine(DownloadImages((response.Url), tempImage));
}
});
}

public IEnumerator DownloadImages(string downloadUrl, RawImage tempImage)
{
var www = new WWW(downloadUrl);
yield return www;
downloadedImages = new Texture2D(200, 200);
www.LoadImageIntoTexture(downloadedImages);
tempImage.texture = downloadedImages as Texture;
}


And this is what I want to show:

1 Answer
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string name = achievements[i].GetString("name");

makes a dictionary lookup in the loop. Get the ordinals of the fields outside the loop, pu them into a variable and then use GetString(variable) (with the variable being integer type) - faster lookips.

Likely DownloadTheFiles is the bottleneck (do NOT make us do your basic work) and there is no way around this outside of hiding it (i.e. preloading or something else). It is, without you doing the base work and actually doing some debugging and profiling, the only thing that stands out because it does need to really do a network round drop for every image.

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