Shape List Demo
These are three examples:
One with no shape lists, and no buffered drawing.
One with simple buffered drawing. About 4x faster.
The last with complex buffered drawing. More than 850x faster.
Example One - No Shape Lists
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This demo shows the speed of drawing a full grid of squares using no buffering.
For me this takes about 1.3 seconds per frame.
It is slow because we load all the points and all the colors to the card every
time.
If Python and Arcade are installed, this example can be run from the command line with:
python -m arcade.examples.shape_list_demo_1
"""
import arcade
import timeit
SCREEN_WIDTH = 1200
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 800
SCREEN_TITLE = "Shape List Demo 1"
SQUARE_WIDTH = 5
SQUARE_HEIGHT = 5
SQUARE_SPACING = 10
class MyGame(arcade.Window):
""" Main application class. """
def __init__(self, width, height, title):
super().__init__(width, height, title)
arcade.set_background_color(arcade.color.DARK_SLATE_GRAY)
self.draw_time = 0
def on_draw(self):
"""
Render the screen.
"""
# This command has to happen before we start drawing
arcade.start_render()
# Start timing how long this takes
draw_start_time = timeit.default_timer()
# --- Draw all the rectangles
for x in range(0, SCREEN_WIDTH, SQUARE_SPACING):
for y in range(0, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SQUARE_SPACING):
arcade.draw_rectangle_filled(x, y, SQUARE_WIDTH, SQUARE_HEIGHT, arcade.color.DARK_BLUE)
# Print the timing
output = f"Drawing time: {self.draw_time:.3f} seconds per frame."
arcade.draw_text(output, 20, SCREEN_HEIGHT - 40, arcade.color.WHITE, 18)
self.draw_time = timeit.default_timer() - draw_start_time
def main():
MyGame(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_TITLE)
arcade.run()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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Example Two - Simple Shape Lists
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This demo shows using buffered rectangles to draw a grid of squares on the
screen.
For me this starts at 0.500 seconds and goes down to 0.220 seconds after the
graphics card figures out some optimizations.
It is faster than demo 1 because we aren't loading the vertices and color
to the card again and again. It isn't very fast because we are still sending
individual draw commands to the graphics card for each square.
If Python and Arcade are installed, this example can be run from the command line with:
python -m arcade.examples.shape_list_demo_2
"""
import arcade
import timeit
SCREEN_WIDTH = 1200
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 800
SCREEN_TITLE = "Shape List Demo 2"
SQUARE_WIDTH = 5
SQUARE_HEIGHT = 5
SQUARE_SPACING = 10
class MyGame(arcade.Window):
""" Main application class. """
def __init__(self, width, height, title):
super().__init__(width, height, title)
arcade.set_background_color(arcade.color.DARK_SLATE_GRAY)
self.draw_time = 0
self.shape_list = None
def setup(self):
# --- Create the vertex buffers objects for each square before we do
# any drawing.
self.shape_list = arcade.ShapeElementList()
for x in range(0, SCREEN_WIDTH, SQUARE_SPACING):
for y in range(0, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SQUARE_SPACING):
shape = arcade.create_rectangle_filled(x, y, SQUARE_WIDTH, SQUARE_HEIGHT, arcade.color.DARK_BLUE)
self.shape_list.append(shape)
def on_draw(self):
"""
Render the screen.
"""
# This command has to happen before we start drawing
arcade.start_render()
# Start timing how long this takes
draw_start_time = timeit.default_timer()
# --- Draw all the rectangles
self.shape_list.draw()
output = f"Drawing time: {self.draw_time:.3f} seconds per frame."
arcade.draw_text(output, 20, SCREEN_HEIGHT - 40, arcade.color.WHITE, 18)
self.draw_time = timeit.default_timer() - draw_start_time
def main():
window = MyGame(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_TITLE)
window.setup()
arcade.run()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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Example Three - Complex Shape Lists
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This demo shows drawing a grid of squares using a single buffer.
We calculate the points of each rectangle and add them to a point list.
We create a list of colors for each point.
We then draw all the squares with one drawing command.
This runs in about 0.000 seconds for me. It is much more complex in code
than the prior two examples, but the pay-off in speed is huge.
If Python and Arcade are installed, this example can be run from the command line with:
python -m arcade.examples.shape_list_demo_3
"""
import arcade
import timeit
SCREEN_WIDTH = 1200
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 800
SCREEN_TITLE = "Shape List Demo 3"
HALF_SQUARE_WIDTH = 2.5
HALF_SQUARE_HEIGHT = 2.5
SQUARE_SPACING = 10
class MyGame(arcade.Window):
""" Main application class. """
def __init__(self, width, height, title):
super().__init__(width, height, title)
arcade.set_background_color(arcade.color.DARK_SLATE_GRAY)
self.draw_time = 0
self.shape_list = None
def setup(self):
self.shape_list = arcade.ShapeElementList()
# --- Create all the rectangles
# We need a list of all the points and colors
point_list = []
color_list = []
# Now calculate all the points
for x in range(0, SCREEN_WIDTH, SQUARE_SPACING):
for y in range(0, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SQUARE_SPACING):
# Calculate where the four points of the rectangle will be if
# x and y are the center
top_left = (x - HALF_SQUARE_WIDTH, y + HALF_SQUARE_HEIGHT)
top_right = (x + HALF_SQUARE_WIDTH, y + HALF_SQUARE_HEIGHT)
bottom_right = (x + HALF_SQUARE_WIDTH, y - HALF_SQUARE_HEIGHT)
bottom_left = (x - HALF_SQUARE_WIDTH, y - HALF_SQUARE_HEIGHT)
# Add the points to the points list.
# ORDER MATTERS!
# Rotate around the rectangle, don't append points caty-corner
point_list.append(top_left)
point_list.append(top_right)
point_list.append(bottom_right)
point_list.append(bottom_left)
# Add a color for each point. Can be different colors if you want
# gradients.
for i in range(4):
color_list.append(arcade.color.DARK_BLUE)
shape = arcade.create_rectangles_filled_with_colors(point_list, color_list)
self.shape_list.append(shape)
def on_draw(self):
"""
Render the screen.
"""
# This command has to happen before we start drawing
arcade.start_render()
# Start timing how long this takes
draw_start_time = timeit.default_timer()
# --- Draw all the rectangles
self.shape_list.draw()
output = f"Drawing time: {self.draw_time:.3f} seconds per frame."
arcade.draw_text(output, 20, SCREEN_HEIGHT - 40, arcade.color.WHITE, 18)
self.draw_time = timeit.default_timer() - draw_start_time
def main():
window = MyGame(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_TITLE)
window.setup()
arcade.run()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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