Hmm, I had hoped to implement clouds and other atmosphere effects with a
sphere geometry with a rotation applied over time. Sounds like this will be
an expensive solution. How have other people implemented clouds?
Dave Yazel
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> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Background drastically slows down interaction
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> Matthew Cairns wrote:
>
> > fine with just a plane colour background but with a jpg background
> (81KB)
> > the movement is very slow and jumpy - does anyone know why this shoud
> be
> > or how to solve the problem?
>
> Go back to plain colour. Images as backgrounds are very expensive to
> render as each frame you have to blit the entire image again before
> drawing the new contents. That's the same as having a huge texture map
> the size of the window.
>
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