0x72
Neil Wolfkid 💣@0x72 A little technical question, do you render everything in a single call or do you render it all separately call-by-call?
I was working on a 3D game made with Löve and batching was pretty complex to do, maybe because I didnt invest enough time and effort onto it
@darl Hi there.
It's not the löve-provided batching but effect is similar.
Everything uses just one texture - that makes it much easier.
At the beginning of a scene I combine all static objects into single Mesh (no chunking for now, but should be easy to add later).
Rest of the objects are rendered one by one in a loop. In the picture I've sent only the character and water are non-static (Any semi-transparent object is always non-static so I can render them at the very end).
All being low-poly and no-shadows (or very simple shadows, I'm still experimenting with the aesthetics) makes performance pretty much non-issue at this point.
@0x72 Makes sense! I was mostly afraid of löve needing to translate from Lua arrays to C arrays to GL buffers, which is pretty slow in my experience, but your solution seems pretty sensible :)
Thanks for replying!
Thanks for replying!