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Jamie Burns

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Aug 23, 2002, 10:26:24 AM8/23/02

Hello,

I am writing an application which will make heavy use of Animated Textures.
I would like a way of generating these Animated Textures seperately from the
main Scene rendering. Some of these Animated Textures may take a long time
to generate, and so I don't want to stall or stop the main Scene rendering
while this is happening.

Can anyone suggest the best way to approach this?

Can I use threads for drawing Animated Textures offscreen, and if so, how
would I then introduce the generated Animated Texture into the main Scene?

Thanks for your thoughts everyone!

Jamie Burns.

Wolfgang Draxinger

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Aug 24, 2002, 5:26:19 PM8/24/02

You could use a thread to prepare a texture for use. If you use a
separate rendering context for the thread, which is sharing the
textures, you also can load up the textures into the video memory.
However I think, that this may slow down your render loop.

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