It's an obvious performance penalty, seen not as memory usage but as fps. I've tryed the same scene (27000 objects) with planar circular surfaces instead of spheres, and the performance was up to 3x faster. That's quite a lot.
In conclusion, if you want speed (fps), use simple geometry. Use spheres only when they are absolutely necessary. Cheers, Florin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alessandro Borges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 10. März 2003 03:58 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [JAVA3D] Sphere rendering - performance See a post by Florin last week. He was drawing several thousand of spheres at once... But I guess a Sphere has (a lot) more vertices than a Cube(8) and this has more vertices than a Cone(5) with a 4 corner base, plus apice (piramid) Alessandro Ben Logan escreveu: > How do u mean – I am just drawing lots of individual ‘Sphere’ objects. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion list for Java 3D API > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hterrolle > Sent: 09 March 2003 18:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Sphere rendering - performance > > What are you using to display a lots of sphere > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Ben Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Date : dimanche 9 mars 2003 18:44 > Objet : [JAVA3D] Sphere rendering - performance > > Ok, quick question; > > I am displaying a scene full of lots of spheres that represent > some given entity, > > Will there be a performance improvement if I use pyramids or cubes > etc instead? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________________________________ Busca Yahoo! O serviço de busca mais completo da Internet. O que você pensar o Yahoo! encontra. http://br.busca.yahoo.com/ =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". ==========================================================================To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
