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andrewowaun Full Member Offline Posts: 202 Barbados	Framerate hit with vertex Mar 1st, 2010, 12:42pm   What is the best way to use vertices while keeping a decent frameRate? e.g. Code: for (int a= 0;a<width;a++){   for (int b= 0;b<height;b++){ beginShape(); vertex(a,b,c); vertex(a-1,b,c); vertex(a-1,b-1,c); vertex(a,b-1,c); endshape(); } } }

Quark Senior Member Offline Posts: 411 UK	Re: Framerate hit with vertex Reply #1 - Mar 1st, 2010, 12:54pm   On a  640 x 480 sketch that's 307,200 quads and 1,228,800 vertexes it will take some miracle to get a decent frame rate, and since each quad represents just 1 pixel it seems overkill. If you are using OpenGL you could try using it directly rather than via Proccessing,

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Framerate hit with vertex Reply #2 - Mar 1st, 2010, 1:08pm   but like quark says, it doesnt make much sense. you could also use point() instead and wont see a big difference. if you tell us what you are trying to do we can maybe think of some other good ways to achieve it
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