Re: [TuxKart-devel] Slowness - really related with Karts?

[James G. <j....@vi...>]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 22:00, Ricardo Cruz wrote:

>  About the cache of textures, that is not practicable, since text is different 
> all the time. You'd need tons of memory to cache all different combinations 
> of texts.
>  What I currently do is to cache TTF_Font, which already helps speeding it up. 
> Though, I dunno if TTF_OpenFont() is all that expensive.

It is possible to cache text textures. For numbers you have to do it in
parts - rather than having "9", "99" and "999", you just cache textures
for the numbers 0-9 for each font you want to draw numbers with, and
then put the textures together to create numbers, timers, etc. You also
need an individual texture for a colon (":") and "mph".

You then have textures for "Wrong Way!", "Ready!", "Set!", "Go!",
"Congratulations!", "1st", "2nd", "3rd", etc, etc.

I've started work but it's very boring.

	James