Hello,
I’m curious to know if you are planning to support DirectX 11 2D as an optional render engine based on OS (DirectX2D windows7 or higher – MS might port it back to DirectX 10 which would also give Vista support).
This would greatly reduce CPU consumption and render speed if passed to the GPU.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
Dan,
Welcome you to ThinkGeo discussion forum and thanks for your post.
Thanks for your kindly reminder, we are always keep an eye on the DirectX drawing system and I knew that the DirectX drawing canvas which is going to integreate the directX rending advantage is already on our working list. We will do more research on it to see if we can get it supported in the coming months. Hope we can get it there.
Any more questions just feel free to let me know.
Thanks.
Yale
Dan,
One other detail on this is that typically the speed improvements are only seen if you render directly to the screen in real-time. This has some drawbacks with the tiling expectation. That also makes it harder to integrate with our stuff without having a spacial edition that only runs on Windows 7. It would be allow more attractive if I could render to a bitmap at the same fast speed.
We also find that the raw drawing is about 1/3 of the entire process overall or less. Depending on the case most of the time is spent reading the data, figuring out what data to read, converting the data, projecting the data, prepping it to draw, making style choices etc.
Don’t get me wrong we are still looking at this technology just wanted to give you a slightly bigger view.
David