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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Wow! The dot command is incredibly slow!

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NeilF
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Posted: 20th Aug 2006 00:22
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If I place a 1000 cube objects on the screen and move them around that's not a problem. 30fps with any trouble at all!

However, if I place 1000 dots on the screen each frame, instead the software is lucky to get a couple of frames a second.

A single pixel is obviously far simpler to render than a cube, so what gives? I assume the dot command then is just very slow and I need to look at direct memory access methods to do dot/lines super quick?
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Daemon
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Posted: 20th Aug 2006 00:25 Edited at: 20th Aug 2006 00:26
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This person had the same problem. Here.

Basically you can use boxes or lock and unlock pixels

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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 20th Aug 2006 00:30
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yes, dot is very slow when you don't lock/unlock pixels

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Slayer93
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Posted: 20th Aug 2006 00:53
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You could also make an image memblock the size of the screen and fill up whatever pixels you wanted and paste it on the screen. That would probably be much faster

Naruto is the ninja...not really

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BatVink
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Posted: 20th Aug 2006 00:54
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My tutorial on memblock images and screen manipulation here might be what you are looking for...

http://www.thegamecreators.com/data/newsletter/newsletter_issue_32.html#9

I wouldn't normlly recommend it for newcomers to DB Pro, but given your past experience it shouldn't be too strenuous on the brain cells!



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NeilF
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Posted: 20th Aug 2006 18:48
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BatVink - I downloaded that tutorial and it won't run

I gets errors with "commands out of place"

Difficult to learn from a tutorial that won't run
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