Mode 7 using the surface object?

[happygreenfrog]

You may remember my attempt at using the surface object to recreate mode 7. I was wonder if somebody could try to help me fix it so that it works properly, as the mode 7 extension runs horribly slow (in general, but still), and I think that a callback in the surface object being run every frame (or every 2 frames) would be better (performance-wise).

[Looki]

Hi,

I doubt you can achieve better performance than Mode 7 like that - Mode 7 was written in pure C++, using the same graphics API that the Surface object uses - so it should be faster than events in any case. Then again, the extension IS horribly slow... when optimized properly it could be a lot faster, I guess. Maybe I can take a peek at its source code.. I'm kinda curious why it's so slow. Still, I don't think a Surface version would achieve better performance. This is MMF's fault, kind of... the event/callback system is simply too slow.

[happygreenfrog]

Well, it could also run in flash if it used the surface object, and Mode 7 EX isn't ported to flash, so that would be the biggest advantage of making it using the surface object.

[Looki]

It would be a lot slower in Flash, though.. :/

[happygreenfrog]

Yeah, I know. It would still be pretty cool...