I have two ways of drawing a series of repeated images in a particular rectangle of screen
One method is to use a For...Next loop to draw the image at selected intervals from its x_postion to its x_postion+length. And vertically from it's y_position to its y_postition+length, except for the images at the edges where I use DrawImageRect to draw a specified fraction of the image. I will tell the programme only to draw the tiles when they are on the screen.
My other option is to use a Viewport command, and use TileImage to place all the images rpeated inside the Viewport. With some coding, I make sure that the viewport never goes off the screen.
I hope that's been good enough description for you. I'll give examples if I need to, but at the moment I haven't written out the code for both for the same object.
Essentially the question is whether it's faster to use a For...Next loop with repeated DrawImage commands, or to use Viewport and TileImage.
Thanks in advance!
One method is to use a For...Next loop to draw the image at selected intervals from its x_postion to its x_postion+length. And vertically from it's y_position to its y_postition+length, except for the images at the edges where I use DrawImageRect to draw a specified fraction of the image. I will tell the programme only to draw the tiles when they are on the screen.
My other option is to use a Viewport command, and use TileImage to place all the images rpeated inside the Viewport. With some coding, I make sure that the viewport never goes off the screen.
I hope that's been good enough description for you. I'll give examples if I need to, but at the moment I haven't written out the code for both for the same object.
Essentially the question is whether it's faster to use a For...Next loop with repeated DrawImage commands, or to use Viewport and TileImage.
Thanks in advance!