Emit Location vs Get Closest Location. What's faster?

[Pancho]

Well, not so much more too add. If you need to determine the surface normal, weight or texture values usually you can go both ways on a static mesh. Is there any advantage of one over the other? Especially with millions of executions it makes for sure a difference.

Cheers

[rray]

Would need some tests (try the built-in ICE stop watches for that).
My guess is that EmitLocation is faster since it's only an attribute that gets read. But ClosestLocation is so optimized that it could be equally fast.

[Mathaeus]

+1 for Emit location as faster. Should be way more predictable, as it is fixed. Get closest Location relies on searching by distance. By the way, Emit Location is writable, if you create the emission from positions, for example, still it's possible to set Emit Location, using Get Closest Location or something else.

[forton]

Emit Location is writable, if you create the emission from positions, for example, still it's possible to set Emit Location, using Get Closest Location or something else.

Thanks for the tip Mathaeus, I didn't know that!