Using the Improved OpenGL Bindings in Lime 4

#1

Lime 4 has been released, and among other changes, we have improved our support for OpenGL!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.openfl.org/blog/2017/03/15/using-the-improved-opengl-bindings-in-lime-4/
#2

Thank you so much Joshua for your hard work, this is awesome !

I’ve tried this version when it was in development, had the performance droping slowly on windows with my project.
I installed the 4.0.0 released version now with compatible openfl and tried it, it’s still happening.

Here is a video showing what’s going on https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxMKiQ74e85JQkZJNGY5djNjeFU

The FPS keeps droping, untill I create a new player, after inverstigation, It turns out creating a new textfield (starling) reset the fps back to 60. But that only works if the the stats are visible at the left corner… else the fps keeps droping even if I do nothing.

If I create a new TextField every frame, the FPS is stable between with stats visible.
Also I noticed sometimes there is weird behaviour like, z-index switching and texture disappearing.

Hope this helps, thank you !

#3

@jinjinjin310 have you tried profiling your code with http://hxscout.com/ ? This would definitely help isolating the issue.

#4

@tanis I have tried but when I compile with -Dtelemetry it just crashes at launch.

#5

I think I found it:

There’s also a fix in Lime to improve OpenGL garbage collection. If you’re testing dev builds, please update and rebuild and see how it all works now

#6

Yes it works, fixed the problem, thank you !

#7

Hello Joshua,

I ask you about improved OpenGL 4.2

Why does it not exist with glBegin and glEnd. I am sorry I hate webgl-version because webgl-version is very hard to understand. Where is clean and explanation from website. Why I have always wrong website if I can not find.

If I use real conversion from HTML / JS to HAXE from webgl-version ( gl-matrix 1.0 / 2.0 ) ( Why not use glBegin and glEnd version because glBegin and glEnd version is easy. )

And compilation shows me error if Float32Array should be “int” or “Float”. Since I create lime create HelloWorld. In OpenGL. I try but it still black. Nothing shows drawing of my custom gl-viewport.

My head always is hurting because webgl-version is for me very miss understandably.

#8

Is there a way to specify the API when using the static GL class with the OpenGLView in OpenFL?

#9

The static GL class resembles the GLRenderContext API, which is sort of a conglomeration of both WebGL and GLES APIs.

You should be allowed to cast it to one of the other API styles, though, for example:

var gl:WebGLContext = GL;

Support for GLES-specific APIs and WebGL2 APIs are still being polished, but this should be the basics of how the GL abstract types work :slight_smile: