Hi,

I've noticed that the panel rendering time in my game is pretty high. We have lots of transparency, but we can't change that.

Is there any way to reduce rendering time that you know of? Anything you've tried? Like making it all one panel and the changing elements are buttons... or splitting it into lots of panels and reducing large transparent areas...

Thanks...

can you try to use some 1-bit transparency.
Like an indexed png with a 1bit alpha channel.

I think the most time is used for calculating the smooth transparent overlay.

Hm. I don't think 1 bit does the job for us. We have some smooth alpha transitions even on the elements themselves. 1-bit would just be 0 or 1, "transparent" or "not transparent", right?
I tried reducing the alpha map, it doesn't look all that great...

Edit:
I'll have to rephrase my question. I just noticed something weird:

Why does acknex require 0.8 ms (see top left) for panel rendering when there isn't a single panel visible?

I think it takes 0.8ms because of the draw_XXX calls that you are probably using for the (true type) text and the debug panel itself.

Yes, Superku is right. The digits from the debug panel need "a lot" of time...
I need also panels for a 2D game, the fps is okay with more then 700 panels. But if i use digits on every Panel, then the fps goes really down.

Hm okay, thanks...

Weird though that the fps doesn't go down much when I disable/enable the F11 panel...

I think you should better test that in an empty testproject,
just rendering the GUI.

To eliminte other possible variables that affect rendering time.