Improved animation performance

client/player/performance/AnimationPerformance.gd

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+class_name AnimationPerformance
+
+const DELAY_INVISIBLE := 1.0
+const DELAY_VISIBLE := 0.5
+
+static var quality_budget: Array[int] = [
+	10, # Full animation quality
+	5, #  2.5 ms delay
+	5, #  5.0 ms delay
+	5, #  7.5 ms delay
+	5, # 10.0 ms delay
+	5, # 12.5 ms delay
+	5, # 15 ms delay
+	5, # 17.5 ms delay
+	5, # 20 ms delay
+]
+
+static func update_animation_quality(visible_players: Array[Player]):
+	var delay := 0.0
+	var count := 0
+	var index := 0
+
+	for player in visible_players:
+		if index >= quality_budget.size():
+			player.performance.delay_visible = DELAY_VISIBLE
+			player.animation.delay = DELAY_VISIBLE
+			continue
+
+		player.performance.delay_visible = delay
+		player.animation.delay = delay
+		count += 1
+
+		if count >= quality_budget[index]:
+			index += 1
+			delay += 0.025
+			count = 0