Here is a short video of a really nice ball animation of the Earth’s Carbon Cycle - which is the sort of thing I’d like to make a series of animations / interactive simulations about. There a re a few more than 30-40 moving balls here - but they are more or less dots….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVsD9CiokY I wonder how many particles can be animated like this in Livecode... On 2 Jul 2020, 20:53 +0100, David Bovill <david.bov...@gmail.com>, wrote: > That's inspired me :) > > I think it may be possible to do what I want in Livecode - which would be > great. Thanks Alex and Bernd :) > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 20:36, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 01/07/2020 02:52, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: > > > > Did you use acceleratedRendering? Set it to true and set the layermode > > > > of each moving object to dynamic. I'd be curious to see if there's a > > > > difference. > > > > > > > > > > > Hadn't tried those until now. There is a difference - but not the kind > > > I'd hoped for :-) > > > > > > Full script is below with detailed time, but the summary is: > > > - acceleratedRendering made things much worse (50% to 90% slower) > > > - dynamic layerMode made things a little bit better (5% to 15%). > > > > > > If the circle was moving over a plain background, improvement was only > > > 5%-ish, while if moving over multiple other shapes, it gave a better > > > improvement. > > > > > > Here's the full snippet of the script involved (other cases obvious :-) > > > > > > > set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to false > > > > set the layermode of grc "g1" to "static" > > > > > > > > repeat 3 times > > > > put 100,400 into tmp > > > > put the millisecs into tim1 > > > > repeat 100 times > > > > add 1 to item 1 of tmp > > > > set the loc of grc "g1" to tmp > > > > wait 0 with messages > > > > end repeat > > > > put the acceleratedRendering of this stack && \ > > > > the layermode of grc "g1" \ > > > > && the millisecs-tim1 &CR after gLog > > > > end repeat > > > > put CR after gLog > > > > > > Here are the times for each of the cases, moving 100 times > > > > > > false static 192 > > > false static 154 > > > false static 155 > > > > > > true static 285 > > > true static 332 > > > true static 249 > > > > > > true dynamic 265 > > > true dynamic 255 > > > true dynamic 309 > > > > > > false dynamic 131 > > > false dynamic 134 > > > false dynamic 149 > > > > > > Alex. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > use-livecode mailing list > > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > > subscription preferences: > > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
