Mountain
After fixing tons of renderer and circuit exporter issues, here's the circuit finished until the beach.
I've also animated some circuit parts, like the waterfall:
After fixing tons of renderer and circuit exporter issues, here's the circuit finished until the beach.
I've also animated some circuit parts, like the waterfall:
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Hi, sorry for bothering you.
You have been working alot with your scanline sprite render. I'm curious how many sprites you can realistically push in a single hblank. Is there a big difference the sprites are copied from IWRAM vs EWRAM for example?
What are your experiences? What's the limit from your testing (I assume you have fine-tuned this limit to push the graphics of your newest racing sim).
Also, do you always push the same amount of scanlines each hblank or do you use interrupts to fine-tune the amount depending on the geometry on screen?
Again just curious :D
Not at all.
Right now the limit is 58 sprites per scanline, but I think I could increase it a bit more (I don't need to do it for now).
HDMA sprite buffers take more than 150KB, so I can't put them in IWRAM :)
Right now the limiting factor is CPU usage, not the number of sprites per scanline.
Unlike with Varooom 3D, with this engine I'm firing a DMA interrupt after each HDMA transfer to setup the number of sprites to transfer per scanline.
The green dots in these pictures show how much time the CPU waits for HDMA transfers before and after using the DMA interrupt:
Thank you! That is some great info :)