On 1/8/2014 11:05 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<[email protected]>" wrote:
I wouldn't expect any implementation, generic or otherwise, to assume
mostly static geometry. You could bet that a simple graphics API in
Phobos would be used for games by some and for generating pie charts
by others. It's still possible to get a generic rendering system to
handle that with decent performance. Yes, it makes for compromises in
the backend that a more targeted renderer wouldn't need to make, but
that's the price of genericity.
2D games, web browsers etc use geometry that is mostly static between
frames (although it can be hidden). So you can cache and have a
dirty-flag on each surface (if the path-data change you set the dirty
flag and the engine recreates the cached surface). 3D is different
because of the perspective effect which force you to a complete redraw
every frame.
Is this going to provide a 3D renderer as well? I thought we were just
talking about 2D.
