Re: Performance Issue with flip down tiles

Hey,
The best way to fix your performance is to make some guesses about what is
slowing it down and then try removing those elements one at a time to see
what effect it has on the frame rate. Then, try to figure out how to
optimize each piece and add it back in.

In your case, I would think that all of that dynamic textfield handling is
probably hogging your performance. So, I would completely remove all of the
textfield rendering and just flip blank tiles to see how my performance
improves. If it improves dramatically, then I would figure out how to rework
the text to render more efficiently. If it makes almost no difference, then,
I would look elsewhere for performance improvements.

Sometimes it's one big thing that makes the difference. Other times, it lots
of little things.
Good luck!

Ian Thomas-5 wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm working on a project that produces a display of flip down tiles that
> counts down to a specific date (for an event countdown) and I've pretty
> much
> got the animation nailed.
>
> However, I'm finding it hard to get the performance up to a high enough
> framerate for it to work smoothly.  I'm fairly new to papervision3d and
> have
> tried some things (cacheAsBitmap for my movieclips, baking textures,
> setting
> moviematerial.animated to false where possible etc.) but now I'm really
> stumped!
>
> I've attached my source code and a link to the working demo can be found
> here: http://sites.google.com/site/anatomicdesign/flip-tile to show the
> text, click outside the tiles and it should animate in.
>
> Currently, the way that this works is to produce two sprite's with text
> boxes that can be updated (though actually I can't seem to get the
> textformat to update to show a different color!).  These are used as the
> material for four planes which are positioned to make a tile and are the
> DisplayTile class.  A row holds several DisplayTiles (default  34).  A
> message can be written onto a row (upto the character length) and one of
> the
> rows has been extended to produce the countdown effect.
>
> I'm stumped as to how to improve the performance of this, so any help will
> be gratefully received!!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ian
>
>

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