[Scummvm-devel] Non-AA GUI renderer

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:07:11PM +0300, Filippos Karapetis wrote:
> Would it be possible at all to remove extra effects, e.g. remove shadows
> and other "expensive" effects that need these operations from the non-AA
> renderer? Or are these operations used for the whole rendering process?

What you describe is the current situation in master, as far as I know.

-Willem Jan


> On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Pull request 361 ( https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/361 ) adds
> > various
> > rendering improvements to our GUI, but in doing so adds expensive
> > alpha/blending operations to the non-AA GUI renderer.
> >
> > This leads to the question if we still need and/or care for our non-AA
> > GUI renderer. Does anybody have a clear view over if this is still needed
> > for
> > performance reasons on some platforms with some themes?
> >
> > If not, I think we could seriously consider removing the non-AA variant.
> >
> > -Willem Jan
> >
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