StartClipedArea()

[Fou-Lu]

Sometimes you want to draw sprites just on a small part of the screen.

You could clip all of them one by one, but that wouldn't work for sprites3D.

You could also use UseBuffer() on a sprite with the desired size draw everything there and draw this sprite on the screen, but that would be really slow. My sugestion is:

StartClipedArea(X,Y,Width,Height)

;draw all stuff

StopClipedArea()

[Fred]

I don't think than the second solution you told would be really slow (it would be really fast in fact) but the idea is good, i take good note.

[Fou-Lu]

Alright, replace the "really slow" with "really slower". Indeed, it's fast, but not the same.

[Fred]

not really slower, it will only involve an additional blit which is not really overkill.

[Fou-Lu]

OK, replace the "really slower" with "just an insignificant bit slower".
I just said that because I notice difference in the frame rate of my game when I try that. But it's a very small difference.

Anyway you said you would take note, that's enough to make me happy.

Thanks.