Re: SpriteSurface VS RB3D in oS X.3

[Chris Dillman <chrisd at plaidworld dot com>]

> Hi
> there,
> I ve once begun
> making a 2D game on OS 9 using first SpriteSurface and then an RB3D...
> even for 2D games, RB3D is better than SpriteSurface because of its
> ability to smooth the pictures when they are scaled... well, both
> methods were good on OS9 BUT... I m now starting this game from
> scratch cause I want it to run well on OS X... and I m testing
> SpriteSurface and RB3D controls... here is what I m
> seeing:
> RB3D is SLOOOOOOOW
> (and yes I installed the last version of Quasa)... SpriteSurface is a
> bit faster but still flickers a bit, the movements are not very
> smooth... why is that? maybe I m doing something wrong, I don t
> know... isn t there any faster way of having 2D animations? even with
> the timer period set to 0 it s a bit slow... whereas it was plain fast
> on OS 9... I have an iMac G3 500Mhz with 256 Mo ram and a poor ATI
> RAGE Pro with 8 Mo of VRAM... any idea?

Well do you have some FPS you can tell us?

You are calling update on the 3D canvas?

tell us about you game?

Like how many sprites etc.

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