AH! I was quickly skimming the post to check for your machine's stats and -oh thank god- it's a 1.6Ghz.... whewwww... on 3ghz even the menu runs smoothly. Currently it's just a 50x50 ball, but I started off with 200x200 and it was running still fine, just that I thought it was too big and maybe too slow for some, hehe...dear god, that would've caused a riot, LOL!
VERY good to know, though! Thanks a lot!
I did have an agenda with this, since the general possibility of doing things like that opens up a whole new world of vfx applications for Blitz! This is realtime raytracing, even if somewhat simplified by the nature of it being 2d, hehe. But it still does all the same things. It can still be optimized, too, naturally...needless to mention the senseless waste of time with sin and cos on funny fading effects, but it was quick and pretty.
GET THE UPDATE, I've added the fps counter to the menu and simplified the routine a tiny bit.
Thanks, again, Xip! I don't even have any machine under 2.6ghz anymore, except my wife's laptop, that somehow can't even run the graphics properly to begin with (?!) why ever... :{
VERY good to know, though! Thanks a lot!
I did have an agenda with this, since the general possibility of doing things like that opens up a whole new world of vfx applications for Blitz! This is realtime raytracing, even if somewhat simplified by the nature of it being 2d, hehe. But it still does all the same things. It can still be optimized, too, naturally...needless to mention the senseless waste of time with sin and cos on funny fading effects, but it was quick and pretty.
GET THE UPDATE, I've added the fps counter to the menu and simplified the routine a tiny bit.
Thanks, again, Xip! I don't even have any machine under 2.6ghz anymore, except my wife's laptop, that somehow can't even run the graphics properly to begin with (?!) why ever... :{