Render to Target questions

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chronologicaldot
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Render to Target questions

Post by chronologicaldot »

Ok, so I'm hearing about render-to-target changes, but I haven't found exactly what's going on.

At the moment, when trying to draw nice rounded corners for GUI elements, I use a render-to-target trick for caching rounded corner images so that I can keep redrawing them. It looks nice, but I don't know if the new changes to the interface are going to affect my work. I've been using trunk 5104 so far.
So my questions are:
1) When are these changes going to be implemented?
2) Are they going to change the way that we have to use the render-to-target system?
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Re: Render to Target questions

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Changes have been implemented already a few weeks ago, so if it still works you are fine ;-)
It's mostly downward compatible, just allows to speed up some things now.
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Re: Render to Target questions

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k - Thanks for the info!

My file mod times say May 15, so I'm assuming that's recent enough, right?
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Re: Render to Target questions

Post by Nadro »

Like a CuteAlien already said If you need the best performance and some new features you should use new interface, however old interface should works too (it just use the new interface under the hood, but not in the optimal way).
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