Rendering speeds

Some of you may have noticed somewhat sluggish results when alot of different textures are created, or objects with many effects.

I am happy to announce (and this is not an April Fools joke ) that by the tests done, I measure an increase of up to 1000%. Pixel Shader 0.0 operations (such as additive) have also been increased by around 200% in speed, and I hope to optimize other PS effects.

When 0.94 is released, it'd be good to collate some testing information of the general increase .

Okay, out with it. How much of your soul was traded for that kind of increase?

In all seriousness, I am interested in what change you made to the rendering engine specifically. Were there any sacrifice along the way?

Captain its called Optimalization, you get faster program by deleting useless or changing slow algorythms without loosing anything (exept your time).

Silly Doppel, Captain knows about optimization. But that's just a general thing. I like to know what KINDS of optimization. It doesn't have to be a senior thesis on the thing, just a nice couple of paragraphs that make me say "hmm, that's very interesting."

I think maybe he optimalized the whatsits by twiddling the thingumers.

Just a guess.

Silly Doppel, Captain knows about optimization. But that's just a general thing. I like to know what KINDS of optimization. It doesn't have to be a senior thesis on the thing, just a nice couple of paragraphs that make me say "hmm, that's very interesting."

You can compare sources of 0.93 and 0.94 =D

Just because I'm interested in the stuff doesn't mean I have experience with it. I don't even have a compiler. What's got you so defensive about this?

Just because I'm interested in the stuff doesn't mean I have experience with it. I don't even have a compiler. What's got you so defensive about this?

Boredom i guess...

Well, it's much more efficient to send commands to the GPU all in one go (in a batch) than separately. I hadn't realised effect rendering wasn't batched, so was just a matter of fixing that.

And NOW I say, "Hmm, that's very interesting." And it is. Thanks, Ashley!

Doppel, I may not be a programmer (one semester of Java doesn't really cut it) but I still like to be in on this sort of stuff. You and I might get along better if you would consider my future inquiries as innocent and harmless, and perhaps realize I'm not some kid vying for attention.

Doppel's just mean. I mean, look at that avatar... it's just mean.

It's all "I hate you because I can't figure out this magic eye puzzle behind me."

If you think there's a flamewar warming up here, I have a bucket of water for you: Flamewars Get Threads Locked.

No no im not flaming XD, just talking and that behind my avatar is 80x80x80 piece Rubik.

Edit: Like this one http://youtube.com/watch?v=97CMSfwdfHo

About optimizations... Is construct sorting objects that share the same texture? It's a lot faster to draw similar things at the same time, so the GPU doesn't have to swap textures all the time.

...But I guess you're already doing this, right?

(Or maybe that's what batching is? I'm not that good at this kind of stuff)

Flamewars Get Threads Locked.

No flamewars, I was just joking around with Doppel.