Shaders vs Sprites performances

[Clément Faure]

Hello  

I have an application where i need to display approximately 1000 elements (with 5 main shapes and dynamic colors).

I have think at several different approach : 

- Using only Graphics but as it is says in the documentation (Using 300 or more graphics objects can be slow, in this instance use sprites, if you can create a texture to share between them.)

- Using Sprites from Textures from Graphic (the problem of this approach it that i have elements colored dynamically, and i'm not able to generate a Texture from a Graphic => I don't want to use either @pixi/canvas-graphics)

- Using Shaders

I don't have any overview regarding shaders performances. Is it better than Sprites ? than Graphics ?

I would like to make the right decision in terms of performances and good practices.

Thank you in advance.
Have a good day !

[ivan.popelyshev]

colored dynamically with one or multiple colors?

IF 1000 graphics wont work for you - yes, you can make shader that will handle color. it can be mesh-shader, it can be batching.

 

[ivan.popelyshev]

As for best practices, all the variants how to do it - im sorry, that'  sa big topic, i explained this at forums many times but i failed to have time to compile all that in a book. Please provide demo of 1000 graphics that is slow, then we can talk about it.

[Clément Faure]

Hello,

Thank you for your quick response. I went for mesh-shaders  (It was with multiple colors).

Have a great day.