Hi,
I am working with the latest OpenGL "ES" - Version but I guess you can also refer to normal OpenGL 3/4.
I want to draw a really big 2D texture as big as possible as a landscape for a 2D-game.
However I don't really know how I could possibly reach the best performance for this task.
I decided that creating a tile-based-landscape is maybe a pretty good solution.
This is what I have tried so far:
=> Drawing every single tile by changing model matrix, texture nd other states and call the draw-function.
- Pro: Really basic, portable and expandable
- Con: Poor performance or a really small map
Other ideas I have:
=> Using a 1024x1024 framebuffer to draw all those single tiles on and draw those framebuffers on the screen.
- Pro: Basically the first idea with better perfomance (depending on the size of a single tile)
- Con: Maybe poor perfomance if there are dynamic background objects on the map, idk.
=> Using a fragment shader. Give him a texture-array with all tile-textures and an integer-array(texture-ids) to compute and draw the map dynamically every frame.
- Pro: Possibly really dynamic and easy
- Con: Maybe poor performance because the shader needs to be replaced every frame and back again, sending the whole map(integer-array) to the gpu needs maybe to much time and drawing the whole map maybe slows down shader.
This is a hobby project and I don't really have time besides work to experiement around with every idea I have.
What do you think is propably the best solution for my problem or do you have another idea?
Thank you very much in advance
IceCave