After reading the surface count thread I went and attempted to make a benchmark. I have it rendering 225 spheres each with 8 segments or 224 polygons. All together it's 50,400 polygons. My machine (Athlon 1GHz, GeForce 3 Ti 200, 512 MB RAM) runs this at 121 FPS whether AddMesh() and Freeentity(sphere) are commented out or not. So I don't know if that means all these spheres use the same surface since there are no textures and they're materials are the same or that surface count doesn't matter. Draw your own conclusions.
Oh and the camera is positioned pretty high which would rule out fill rate issues.
Oh and the camera is positioned pretty high which would rule out fill rate issues.
Open in online IDEscreen_width=640 screen_height=480 Graphics3D(screen_width,screen_height,16,1) camera=CreateCamera() PositionEntity(camera,75,400,75) RotateEntity(camera,90,0,0) mesh=CreateMesh() For i=1 To 150 Step 10 For j=1 To 150 Step 10 sphere=CreateSphere(8) PositionMesh(sphere,i,0,j) AddMesh(sphere,mesh) FreeEntity(sphere) Next Next While KeyDown(1)=0 RenderWorld Gosub Framerate Flip Wend ;====== FRAMERATE ======================================================== .Framerate fps_counter=fps_counter+1 If framecounter_time=0 Then framecounter_time=MilliSecs() If framecounter_time+1001<MilliSecs() framerate=fps_counter machine_framerate=framerate fps_counter=0 framecounter_time=MilliSecs() last_framerate=framerate EndIf Text ((screen_width*280)/640),((screen_height*430)/480),"Polygons "+TrisRendered() Text ((screen_width*280)/640),((screen_height*450)/480),"FPS-- "+framerate Return ;=========================================================================