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Dark GDK / Questions about the rendering pipeline

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Xiotex Studios
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Hi,

Is Dark Game SDK a totally deferred rendering system where we set what we want to see happen - for example place a sprite on screen - and then at some pre-defined point the engine takes over and then actually performs that task?

The reason I ask is that given access to the d3d device I might want to enable/disable some render state - but if it is a deferred system then that is not a good idea because it will most likely lead to unpredicatable results.

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Mike Johnson
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Everything is deferred. It's only when dbSync is called that the screen is updated and objects, sprites etc. are drawn.

You can set some render states for objects by using sObject* dbGetObject ( int iID ) and modifying certain parts of the object directly. This will only work for Basic 3D objects. We need to add in extra functions so you can do similar work with sprites etc.
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Okay - that sounds fair and also sensible.

Good stuff!

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