Direct Frame Buffer Access

[asmodeus]

What about the feature of direct frame buffer access? SDL (what is used by GE) has got the feature of getting the frame buffer pointer to individual manipulate pixels. Maybe that feature in GE would be very interesting, and it would make thinks like the "RayCastle" faster
It's also useful is people want to write custom draw functions for example to draw special custom shapes quickly.

[akr]

In principle this is a good idea. But almost all newer ge engines use opengl. For opengl there is no "direct buffer access".
The framebuffer is encapsulated in hardware. We could think about exposing some opengl functions to public.

[asmodeus]

In principle this is a good idea. But almost all newer ge engines use opengl.

Does Game Editor really use OpenGL by now? I haven't been using GE for a long while, and as so far as I remember GE only offered simple drawing functions what was easily possible in SDL.

[akr]

All newer ge engines i ported use opengles: mac, iphone, ipad & android. Otherwise performance on iphone, ipad and android would be unacceptable.
With opengles e.g. games like 1945 run at full frame rate on iphone and android.

Woher kommst Du genau?

[asmodeus]

All newer ge engines i ported use opengles: mac, iphone, ipad & android. Otherwise performance on iphone, ipad and android would be unacceptable.
With opengles e.g. games like 1945 run at full frame rate on iphone and android.

Woher kommst Du genau?

Okay, I didn't know about that. I currently don't use GE any longer and work with the SDL or SFML gaming library and C++.

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