On Jul 3, 12:32 am, "Alex Holkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:12 PM, tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 2, 1:53 am, "Alex Holkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If it's possible to reorganise your code so that the batch and group
> >> are created first, you should do so. Doing things in the order you
> >> describe will result in wasted effort, including allocating and
> >> deallocating resources on the GPU (these won't even be freed until the
> >> Python GC gets to them).
>
> >> The warning above is really to discourage migrating sprites often, you
> >> probably won't notice any performance problems in the situation you
> >> describe (as Sprite creation is fairly slow anyway).
>
> >> Alex.
>
> > Thanks for the quick reply. Reorganizing to create sprites with the
> > correct group is just a matter of adopting a slightly more round-about
> > way of creating sprites. If it's worth it for efficiency its no big
> > deal to do.
>
> > When you say sprite creation by itself if fairly slow, this got me
> > thinking. I've begun work on a game that will use a rather hefty
> > amount of sprites for projectiles and particles. Would it make sense
> > to reuse sprites? By this I mean, for certain groups of sprites such
> > as particles, instead of destroying a sprite, just set it invisible
> > until I need it again. Then later I would just make it visible and
> > update all it's properties such as image, position, scale, etc. The
> > group and batch properties will obviously stay the same.
>
> > The question is, would such recycling be more efficient than killing
> > and creating new sprites? Absolutely? Perhaps slightly? Not at all?
>
> Um.
>
> I look forward to your benchmark results :-)
>
> Alex.
Aw, that's mean :)
Well, if I do end up trying this sometime in the next months I'll be
sure to share.
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