wow bero your gui looks amazing , i'am just wondering if this could be run on non vulcan machines ? (gl3 for example)
2021-11-05 16:41 UTC+01:00, Benjamin Rosseaux via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>: > I'm curious to see how it compares with my vector-based UI framework stuff > at PasVulkan ( https://youtu.be/YR0KruyQbx4 ), where the GPU itself renders > everything by shader, where nothing is bitmap-based, if one ignores the 2D > vector signed distance field textures for fonts and so on. The CPU pushes > just roughly basic draw information to the GPU, where the fragment > übershader itself applies the corresponding design look with help of 2D SDF > math in an always antialiased way then. > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:45 AM Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal < > fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > >> @code >> >> It's a bit weasely to claim immediate or retain based on how the >> underlying implementation works. The UI toolkit is drawn using a vector >> based OpenGL library. The library uses hardware vertex buffers, render >> buffers, and a hardware stencil buffer (for anti-aliasing) to draw lines >> and shapes. With regards to what people familiar with OpenGL would >> consider, this is the opposite of immediate mode. >> >> However, these vertex buffers are repopulated every frame and where the >> entire scene is redrawn. This makes it seem to fall under the auspice of >> immediate mode. >> >> BUT >> >> If you read up a few messages back, I described how you can enable render >> buffers to save your work, and it's quite possible and even I'd say easy >> to >> do with my framework. But it's an opt-in step. >> >> HOWEVER >> >> This UI toolkit is only an incidental part of the library I am writing. >> The actual purpose of the library is to provide users with a very fast 2D >> graphics system with a hardware accelerated backend to render vector >> graphics. Further work will also include a Pascal object oriented >> interface >> to the fairly robust, fast, and powerful Chipmunk2D physics engine. My >> creating of this UI toolkit is only meant to give people writing physics >> simulations, games, or graphical demos a means to select, input, or >> change >> options for their physics simulation, game, or graphical demo. It is not >> meant to be used as a general purpose UI toolkit. >> _______________________________________________ >> fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org >> https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >> > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
