Quote from: When you turn off rending, this also disables any graphics commands like iObjectHide or show.
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When running a multi-user project as the server, it's a good idea to use "iRenderingEnable(bool);" to reduce the CPU usage by your project by disabling graphics output. So i created a small script to turn on a sprite ( setup as full screen and black) ( if you just turn off the the engine rendering with out clearing the screen first, you'll end up seeing what ever the graphics buffer last displayed on screen, which i think looks crappy). So it seemed simple enough to settup.... Not so, took me 2 hours of playing around to figure out the problem. When you turn off rending, this also disables any graphics commands like iObjectHide or show. What i had to do was to add a timer delay that starts the timer, applies the graphic command, waits till the timer is done, then turns off the rendering.
bool On = true, KeyDwn = false;
float Timer = 0;
/// OBJ_0 = sprite to display ( black screen to clear / overwrite the buffer )
void Main(){
// one shot keypress control
if(!iKeyDown(-1)) KeyDwn = false;
// keypress to toggle rendering On / Off
if(iKeyDown(iKeyCode("DIK_F1")) && !KeyDwn){
// one shot keypress control
KeyDwn = true;
// redering control
On = !On;
// set timer value to wait
Timer = 1;
// toggles sprite show/hide
iObjectShowHideSwitch(OBJ_0);
}
// countdown to 0 timer
if(Timer > 0) Timer -= 0.016667;
// apply render state when timer is less then 0
if(Timer < 0){
iRenderingEnable(On);
// reset timer to 0, waiting for keypress
Timer = 0;
}
}
Created on: 4 months ago
Edited on: 4 months ago |
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When you turn off rending, this also disables any graphics commands like iObjectHide or show. Internally, iObjectHide/iObjectShow should only toggle a internal bool value in the object's struct class. Disabling/enabling the show/hide functions if rendering is disabled is useless. Unrelated, but yeah, I gave my opinion.
Created on: 4 months ago
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