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ScreenOutput or ImageOutput

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Would it be good practice to use ImageOutput at all times for game drawing instead of ScreenOutput and then just once each frame draw that image to ScreenOutput?
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Raybarg wrote:Would it be good practice to use ImageOutput at all times for game drawing instead of ScreenOutput and then just once each frame draw that image to ScreenOutput?
No.
The screen is allready double buffert.
btw. drawing to a image is the slowest way you can go as it's not done by the graphics card.
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Probably not because I imagine imageoutput can't offer the hw acceleration you can get using d3d or opengl using screenoutput.

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So I should use Sprite3D library if I want to get groovy with Alpha channel then? :)
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Raybarg wrote:So I should use Sprite3D library if I want to get groovy with Alpha channel then? :)
Yep :)
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