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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / 4 inks and a set text size gets 38 FPS

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ICERGB
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Posted: 5th Aug 2003 09:23
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4 inks and a set text size gets 38 FPS
without them I get 388 FPS

the backdrop is on and if I print text without changing the colors the speed is unharmed.(about 30 words at a time)


Is this generally excepted as a slow feature?
Is there a way to speed things up?
Is there any news of speeding this command up in the future?

I am using ink rgb(255,0,0),rgb(0,0,0)

I was wondering, "What was slowing things down so much?"
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indi
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Posted: 5th Aug 2003 09:48
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pre calc the text as an image onto a 3d plain.

http://www.lunarpixel.com
http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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Kensupen
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Posted: 5th Aug 2003 10:08
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I believe it's only the set text size that is slow. You can use different ink colors with very little speed loss. Set Text Size kills it.

-Kensupen

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System Specs: AMD XP 1700+, WinXP Home, 1GB PC133 ram and Radeon 9500 using DX9
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Posted: 5th Aug 2003 12:47
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yup, set text size is the bugbear, set it once outside the loop or make some huge letters as sprites and then scale em down to the required size, then you just need a simple routine to "print" them.

Mentor.

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TDK
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Posted: 6th Aug 2003 07:24
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RGB will slow things down too - albeit marginally.

If you are trying to squeeze that last bit of speed out of your program, Ink RGB(255,0,0),0 is a tiny bit faster...

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