[SlimDX] Rendering some objects just once?
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Alright, so now that I am close to finishing my first 2D game in Direct3D, with all the physics included and such, the framerate is getting very low. On my laptop (3 year old laptop that is), the framerate is 30 FPS. I know this is okay, but I want it to be higher.
So I looked at surfaces, and I thought:
Would it be possible to draw objects that you knew never changed size or position to a surface, that would never be cleared, so that it wouldn't have to be redrawn every frame as well?
It's certainly possible, that's how impostors are usually done. However, it's only a performance gain if the object is updated very infrequently, and is relatively complex to draw.
You'd be best profiling to find out where most of your scene time is going using a GPU profiler, for NVidia cards there's NVPerfHUD, and I gather something similar exists for ATI cards.
You'd be best profiling to find out where most of your scene time is going using a GPU profiler, for NVidia cards there's NVPerfHUD, and I gather something similar exists for ATI cards.
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Thanks. So I tried this:
Created a new texture.
Got the surface of the texture through <TextureName>.GetSurfaceLevel(0).
Set the render target of the device to the texture surface.
Drew the objects.
Now what? I don't know what to do from here, or if I'm even doing it correctly.
Created a new texture.
Got the surface of the texture through <TextureName>.GetSurfaceLevel(0).
Set the render target of the device to the texture surface.
Drew the objects.
Now what? I don't know what to do from here, or if I'm even doing it correctly.
That looks fine - so long as you created the texture as a render target (I don't know how you do that in SlimDX).
After you've drawn the objects, you can call EndScene() and then set the original render target back, and use the texture like any other texture - and it should have the model you drew on it.
After you've drawn the objects, you can call EndScene() and then set the original render target back, and use the texture like any other texture - and it should have the model you drew on it.
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Quote:Original post by Evil Steve
That looks fine - so long as you created the texture as a render target (I don't know how you do that in SlimDX).
After you've drawn the objects, you can call EndScene() and then set the original render target back, and use the texture like any other texture - and it should have the model you drew on it.
Alright, that seems to work. Now, on the new surface, the edges are very sharp. I used to have Multisampling on, but how do I enable that for the new surface too?
I would profile your code before doing anything else. Both on the CPU and GPU side.
If you don't want to, then there are some other things you can look at, such as:
How many draw calls are you making each frame?
Are you doing any large lock, update, unlock operations on GPU resources (buffers, textures, etc) each frame?
Plenty of other too, but they would be my first ports of call.
If you don't want to, then there are some other things you can look at, such as:
How many draw calls are you making each frame?
Are you doing any large lock, update, unlock operations on GPU resources (buffers, textures, etc) each frame?
Plenty of other too, but they would be my first ports of call.
Quote:Original post by Mathy
Alright, that seems to work. Now, on the new surface, the edges are very sharp. I used to have Multisampling on, but how do I enable that for the new surface too?
I'm fairly sure you can do it using the Surface.CreateRenderTarget(...) method.
You then have to use Device.StretchRectangle(...) with your back buffer as the second arguement to copy the results to the screen.
The class reference in the Slim DX Docs is your friend, use it.
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Quote:Original post by adt7Quote:Original post by Mathy
Alright, that seems to work. Now, on the new surface, the edges are very sharp. I used to have Multisampling on, but how do I enable that for the new surface too?
I'm fairly sure you can do it using the Surface.CreateRenderTarget(...) method.
You then have to use Device.StretchRectangle(...) with your back buffer as the second arguement to copy the results to the screen.
The class reference in the Slim DX Docs is your friend, use it.
Surface.CreateRenderTarget returns an error: "Device is not capable of sharing resource. CreateRenderTarget/CreateDepthStencil fails."
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I should be mentioning that I am making the device like this:
Dim Handle As IntPtr
Dim STATIC_SURFACE As Surface = Surface.CreateRenderTarget(DEVICE, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.BackBufferWidth, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.BackBufferHeight, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.BackBufferFormat, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.Multisample, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.MultisampleQuality, False, Handle)
I am also creating it before any other rendering.
Dim Handle As IntPtr
Dim STATIC_SURFACE As Surface = Surface.CreateRenderTarget(DEVICE, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.BackBufferWidth, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.BackBufferHeight, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.BackBufferFormat, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.Multisample, DEVICE_PARAMETERS.MultisampleQuality, False, Handle)
I am also creating it before any other rendering.
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