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Dark GDK / Performance hit with Images for GUI, Sprites any better?

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TheeLord
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 21:13
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I notice a big framerate hit when I use images for my GUI, I'm guessing this is not the proper way to make a UI correct? Would this perform much better with Sprites??
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TheeLord
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Posted: 19th Dec 2010 07:40
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/bumpidy if someone would have some insight on this I would appreciate it
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Indicium
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Posted: 19th Dec 2010 22:39
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Sprites are much faster than Images.

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Matty H
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Posted: 19th Dec 2010 23:17
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Does anyone know if using planes(3D) is faster than sprites? I think I read somewhere that it os but I have no idea where I read it, I do remember them saying that sprites are slow.

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Dar13
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Posted: 20th Dec 2010 05:37
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Quote: "Does anyone know if using planes(3D) is faster than sprites? I think I read somewhere that it os but I have no idea where I read it, I do remember them saying that sprites are slow."

For large amounts I think planes are faster, since drawing many simple polygons is easier to push to the GPU than to draw many possibly conflicting pixels with alpha information.

I think that's right, but since IanM just updated the drawing routine for sprites I'm not sure.


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Matty H
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Posted: 20th Dec 2010 21:36
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Quote: "For large amounts I think planes are faster, since drawing many simple polygons is easier to push to the GPU than to draw many possibly conflicting pixels with alpha information."


Thanks for the info, I may do a speed comparison test sometime to see how much faster planes are.

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TheeLord
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Posted: 21st Dec 2010 01:48
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Great, thank you for your help. I will need to rewrite my GUI code to use Sprites instead then. blllahh shoulda looked into that first I suppose...
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