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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Most resource intensive commands ?

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DemonHill
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Posted: 14th Sep 2011 02:36
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I read somewhere that commands such as Set Text To Normal" & "Set Text To Bold" consume a lot of resources and impact FPS in the game loop.


Does anyone have any info. on other commands and the impact as well as reminding me how to display the Frame per Second ? FPS... many thanks

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 14th Sep 2011 15:22
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Quote: "reminding me how to display the Frame per Second ? FPS"


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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 14th Sep 2011 17:06
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i know from personal experience that the ink command causes a vrey noticeable slowdown... I was making a skills sheet where red = damaged white = normal and green = fortified (like in Oblivion). and I re-inked for ever number I wrote. It caused my FPs to drop by about 80% so I had to rework it to draw all reds, then all whites, then all greens. It wouldnt surprise me if the same holds true for the other text commands.

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Webber
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Posted: 15th Sep 2011 01:57
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Just about all of the 2D commands, and text commands slow down the FPS.
If you use large text, and a lot of text, and certain more detailed fonts, the FPS will drop enormously.

I suggest using images, and sprites.

You can always convert things made with the 2D commands or text into images using the get image command.

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IanM
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Posted: 15th Sep 2011 09:31
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That's not the most efficient way to create an image. What you should do is create your blank image, then render to it rather than grab it from a bitmap.

You can do that using the DBPro camera commands (camera to image), or use either my commands or the image kit to create an image and then render to it.

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