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

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

 Oh, creating a texture for every character... But why not just using a pixmap 
format then (rather than the vectorial one - TTF)?

Ricardo

Em Domingo, 5 de Setembro de 2004 23:05, o James Gregory escreveu:
> 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
>
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