a small question about sprites , please respond

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haliop

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Posted: 26th Jun 2013 15:35

if for say i'll add
100 sprites to a random place in screen... using the DrawSprite command , where the original sprite is offscreen or hidden..

and i use EnableClearColor(0)
so actually all im doing is just DrawSprite to diffrent locations on screen...

how come if i donot clean the screen...
how come the getManagedSpriteDrawCalls keep increasing and no stay steady at 100 as the number of the sprites i draw each frame..

it feels like i made a mistake somewhere however it might be a bug or this is just how AppGameKit works... i think the problem is on my end..
any thoughts?

like if i draw 100 sprites per frame
then the managedSpriteDrawCalls should be 100
cause if i'll enableClearColor(1) then you will see only 100 sprites per frame...
but when its off its 100 + 100 + 100 + 100 and so on.. which should not happen...

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=198467&b=22

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Posted: 26th Jun 2013 15:45

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Maybe it's just never clearing the sprite buffer, so each time you call a DrawSprite, it's adding to the buffer but never clearing it. Drawing the sprite won't actually draw it in 2D, it'll add it to the render pipeline which should really be cleared after each sync().

Are you disabling automatic screen updates?, maybe you'll have to clear the buffer yourself somehow.

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haliop

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Posted: 26th Jun 2013 15:47

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how do i reach this buffer?
what are we talking about in sense of commands?

cause i use EnableClearColor(0)
and EnableClearDepth(0)

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=198467&b=22

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haliop

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Posted: 26th Jun 2013 15:48

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and also im in Tier 1 not 2

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Posted: 26th Jun 2013 17:59

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The general idea is you use:
1- clearScreen() to clear the buffer
2- drawSprite() / render() to draw / paste your sprites
3- swap() to swap the buffer to the screen