[Freeciv-Dev] Re: next beta

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> Andreas Røsdal wrote:
>
> However alpha blending is pretty much required to get better graphics.
> Some performance hit may be unavoidable.  Unless we have better graphics
> (mapview sliding, more animation) drawing time isn't a major problem anyway.
>
> I think Vasco wants to hold out for Cairo support in GTK.  But I'd be
> interested in seeing a patch to use all pixbuf drawing, and comparing
> speeds with the current code.

Any volunteers?

I wouldn't be suprised if writing our own software alpha-blended bitblit
with MMX/SSE acceleration was faster...

> > A OpenGL client, or a way to do alpha-blending in the common code would be
> > even better.
>
> Yep.  Good luck.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa