Sparrow Forum

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   htksdad
   Member

   I'm interested in looking at Sparrow, but I was reading a forum that mentioned that every sprite that is draw has its own set of OpenGL calls rather than batching into one call per texture. However this would have been for release 1.0. For reference the post is here: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-game-development/32179-sparrow-new-open-source-iphone-2d-game-framework.html#post163970

   Has this been addressed yet? If not, is it in the road map for sparrow?

   Fingers crossed that it is.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   alex_h
   Moderator

   There is now a facility to bundle sprites together using the class SPCompiledSprite.
   In any case I can confirm that there is no need to worry about rendering speed with Sparrow - we've used it for shed-loads of projects now and had no issues at all with performance.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   htksdad
   Member

   Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds good and to satisfy myself I'll do a quick test with SPCompiledSprite to see how it goes.

   Nice clean site and API.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   bsowers
   Member

   Sparrow does indeed not do any form of batching on its own. It will, however, only do texture binds if the texture actually changes between draw calls - there's nothing to prevent you from doing the batching yourself.

   Posted 6 months ago #
5. 

   Daniel
   Primary Feather

   Thanks for the compliments, htksdad! Alex is right, the "SPCompiledSprite" class is exactly what I was talking about in the forum post on iPhoneDevSDK. It *extremely* speeds up static content.

   Posted 6 months ago #

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