Blitzmax-NG vs Blitmax performance
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| Hello I'm making 2D platformer which uses much of what Bmax can offer (here is sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8GN3frSXqw). I'm quite deep in the project so I want to ask is it worth moving to Bmax-NG? Will it suffer from a performance loss? I downloaded latest Bmx-NG but could not compile my game because of some error in bah.box2d mod. I'm planning to release it for desktops (which means that I don't need NG) but reason I'm interested in Bmax-NG is mojo2 which has some advanced 2d rendering capabilities. Will mojo2 work on normal Bmax ? Thank you in advance :) |
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| I've just updated box2d for NG, and tested the examples on 64-bit OSX. They all appear to be working correctly. Mojo2 has a different API to Max2D. Most of Mojo2 works with legacy BlitzMax, except for the custom lights and layers stuff, which uses Interfaces, and I haven't worked out a clever way to accomplish the following : Type TMyLayer Extends TDrawList Implements ILayer Since NG supports Interfaces, it was easy to fully port Mojo2 to NG :-) As far as performance is concerned, NG compiled code is generally as fast, if not significantly faster, depending on what your code is doing. But of course, your mileage may vary :-) |
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| Cool to hear. Where can I get NG-box2d ? |
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| Cool to hear. Where can I get NG-box2d ? It's included in Brucey's bah.mod: https://github.com/maxmods/bah.mod |
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| Got it, thanks. Works but I still can't compile my game because of problems with TimelineFX. I wrote about it in separate thread. |
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