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renojim
Community Streaming Expert
15 years ago

Tips for speeding up animation speed (roImageCanvas)

Anyone have any? I notice that if I have one layer that's the slightest bit complicated anything I try to draw on another layer slows to a crawl even if the complicated layer never changes. Anyone h...
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer
15 years ago
Take a look at this thread from last week: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=30944

One of the biggest factors I've found is the size of the image being drawn in a single layer. There's a surprising speed difference between drawing an image that is 600 pixels high vs. an image that's 598 pixels high, so I've found in many cases, you get better refresh rates if you break larger images into multiple layers. kbenson also had some interesting suggestions for using multiple canvases.