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Help => Graphics => Topic started by: Olysold on July 16, 2013, 01:50:04 pm

Title: "Cost" of setting textures
Post by: Olysold on July 16, 2013, 01:50:04 pm

Hello. I was wondering, is it an expensive operation to constantly keep setting textures to a sprite? Say I have a character that shoots out textured bullets. In the construction of those bullets, would it be better to just copy a sprite that has already been textured or set a texture to the sprite on each shot? Or is there no difference whatsoever?

Title: Re: "Cost" of setting textures
Post by: Laurent on July 16, 2013, 02:11:54 pm

There's no difference at all. The heavy operations all occur in the draw function, actually. Until you call it, nothing much happens except assignments and lightweight stuff.