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Graphics / Re: What's the best way to draw a lot of sprites?

« on: January 07, 2013, 02:09:51 am »

Thanks for those links! Definately will look into that...seems like the way to go. Have to refresh my C++ knowledge ;-)
Thanks for your support so far

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Graphics / Re: What's the best way to draw a lot of sprites?

« on: January 07, 2013, 01:46:05 am »

Okay, you're right. But perhaps there is a "best way" for what I want to do.

To reduce the draw calls I drew the sprites onto a RenderTexture and then simply drew that onto the screen. As mentioned before: The maximum size could be a problem.
Can you explain how sf::VertexArray could help me? Isn't that one only for primitives like rectangles, etc? I need to draw images onto the screen. Or am I missing something?

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Graphics / What's the best way to draw a lot of sprites?

« on: January 07, 2013, 01:23:24 am »

Hello everyone, this is my first post

I'm trying to create a game with an isometric map and I wonder what's the best way to draw it. At first I was drawing all tiles seperately but that was way too slow with a map size of (64x64 tiles). Then I thought I could draw all tiles to a RenderTexture first and just draw that onto the screen. Turned out well - worked really fast. But the problem is the limitation of the size of a RenderTexture. On my older PC I just can't create a RenderTexture that's big enough (and the middle-sized RenderTexutures are way too slow).
Any suggestions?