Hey Everyone,

Im Working on a small2D game engine for myself to use and at the moment im working hardly on the TextureManager class.

My Problem is that I want to check which Sprite belongs to which object and for that I store The Object and Sprite in a Dictionary.
For me this seems to be a cheap and not really performance friendly way to store a whole game object as a key.

/// <summary>
/// Creates a sprite for the refered object
/// </summary>
/// <param name="gameObject">Object</param>
/// <param name="fileName">Texture name</param>
public void CreateSprite(Object gameObject, String fileName)
{
if (this.IsActive)
{
Texture2D tmpTexture;

//Checks if the Texture2D file exists and if the object is already stored
if (this.managerTextureMap.TryGetValue(fileName, out tmpTexture) && !this.managerSpriteObjectMap.ContainsKey(gameObject))
{
this.managerSpriteObjectMap.Add(gameObject, new Sprite(tmpTexture, Vector2.Zero));
}
}
}

Is there any better way to store the right reference between the object and the sprite?
Maybe each object should have a Unique ID made with the HashCode and a random number?

Its just a performance question for me. Maybe not the Object is stored but the Memory adress of the object? I dont know how it works in background ;(

Any Feedback or tips?

Thanks