Comments for Plastic Sturgeon http://plasticsturgeon.com flash games, actionscript and some android too Wed, 16 May 2012 00:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Super-fast scrolling of huge Bitmaps by The Plastic Sturgeon http://plasticsturgeon.com/2010/11/super-fast-scrolling-of-huge-bitmaps/comment-page-1/#comment-1546 The Plastic Sturgeon Wed, 16 May 2012 00:14:43 +0000 http://plasticsturgeon.com/?p=422#comment-1546 @Kyle - so you asked two questions: first about the 1-pixel increments. Flash itself only renders by the 1/2 pixle increment. So moving an object less than 0.5 pixels will not change the screen drawing of that object. So a low speeds, you still see some wiggle. But I promise you, if you switch to using copy pixels, you will notice that being forced to move in 1-pixel increments makes the scrolling appear not-smooth. As for Stage 3D: You're partially right. Stage 3D is designed to use the GPU. But Flash's implementation of 3D is based on a very conservative spec. You don't need a gaming rig. It will run on mobile devices even. People with ANY video card will get excellent performance. And users with no video card (they still exist) will probably still get better performance from stage 3D than from the method I show above. The stage 3D has a software render fallback for those cases. Its much, much slower than GPU drawing, But so far I have not encountered any machines without GPU acceleration in my field testing. But if you think you may be targeting that edge case of hardware, you may need to consider possibly skipping graphics altogether and sticking to command-lines and text. @Kyle – so you asked two questions: first about the 1-pixel increments. Flash itself only renders by the 1/2 pixle increment. So moving an object less than 0.5 pixels will not change the screen drawing of that object. So a low speeds, you still see some wiggle. But I promise you, if you switch to using copy pixels, you will notice that being forced to move in 1-pixel increments makes the scrolling appear not-smooth.

As for Stage 3D: You’re partially right. Stage 3D is designed to use the GPU. But Flash’s implementation of 3D is based on a very conservative spec. You don’t need a gaming rig. It will run on mobile devices even. People with ANY video card will get excellent performance. And users with no video card (they still exist) will probably still get better performance from stage 3D than from the method I show above. The stage 3D has a software render fallback for those cases. Its much, much slower than GPU drawing, But so far I have not encountered any machines without GPU acceleration in my field testing. But if you think you may be targeting that edge case of hardware, you may need to consider possibly skipping graphics altogether and sticking to command-lines and text.

]]> Comment on About by Dragonfly PersonalConcierge http://plasticsturgeon.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 Dragonfly PersonalConcierge Mon, 07 May 2012 18:48:46 +0000 http://plasticsturgeon.com/?page_id=2#comment-1544 Hey Zach! Happy Monday and I love your site! I would love to chat with you regarding some referrals for a full time role at a digital boutique agency. Thanx! kd Hey Zach!

Happy Monday and I love your site! I would love to chat with you regarding some referrals for a full time role at a digital boutique agency.

Thanx!

kd

]]> Comment on How to Detect Software Render Mode with Flare3D by mario http://plasticsturgeon.com/2012/04/how-to-detect-software-render-mode-with-flare3d/comment-page-1/#comment-1541 mario Tue, 01 May 2012 08:39:54 +0000 http://plasticsturgeon.com/?p=815#comment-1541 Like it Like it

]]> Comment on How to Detect Software Render Mode with Flare3D by Gabor Csomak http://plasticsturgeon.com/2012/04/how-to-detect-software-render-mode-with-flare3d/comment-page-1/#comment-1540 Gabor Csomak Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:27:01 +0000 http://plasticsturgeon.com/?p=815#comment-1540 you're tracing the same on both part of if-else statement.. besides this, its a cool article, keep it up! you’re tracing the same on both part of if-else statement.. besides this, its a cool article, keep it up!

]]> Comment on Interactive FLV video using netstream and cuepoints, Part I: Preloading an FLV or F4V by John K http://plasticsturgeon.com/2010/04/interactive-flv-video-using-netstream-and-cuepoints/comment-page-1/#comment-1538 John K Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:13:53 +0000 http://plasticsturgeon.com/?p=6#comment-1538 It looks like now we have a port in AS3... :) www.dragonslairflash.com It looks like now we have a port in AS3… :) http://www.dragonslairflash.com

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