Quick sprite instances

oleg

Tiles work very fast, but tiles have disadvantages:
-Tiles should be square in shape
-Tiles cannot be animated
-Tiles can only be placed on the grid

What is the best way to make copies of objects?
I make copies using Viewport() -But it's still slower than tiles. Is there any quick method to do instances?
Maybe this can somehow be done at api level?

hgy29

Instancing isn't available yet, and will require ES 3...

oleg

hgy29 said:

Instancing isn't available yet, and will require ES 3...

Ie the fastest method now is viewport ??

function clon(sprite,x,y)   local spr=Viewport.new() spr:setPosition(x,y) spr:setContent(sprite) return spr   end

hgy29

Viewport is fastest in the sense that it reuses internal sprite structures and GPU resources, but there is no benefit in terms of scene processing. Particles could be used for simple colored/textured rectangles, but not for generic objects. Instancing will, however, allow to submit for rendering several times the same object with different transforms in a single GPU call, which will be way faster.

hgy29

Instancing will be able in next Gideros release for Mesh. Since it needs a custom shader, it was better to start with bare meshes implementation.

oleg

hgy29 said:

Instancing will be able in next Gideros release for Mesh. Since it needs a custom shader, it was better to start with bare meshes implementation.

When will the release be? , I want to play with the new features of the magnetic sensor!

hgy29

As soon as I manage to make newest build work (currently latest emscripten release broke it).