Hi! I wanted to know if a real Playdate can handle something like 150 draw functions at a time, while nothing else very important is happening in the game. The idea is to use a player tile with transparency to make a fade-to-black animation like this:
After that I'm using just a fill function
First, your game looks amazing!
Second, it might be a little hard to predict this without testing it. Do you happen to have code we could run on a Playdate?
Hi neven thanks!
I did this example with two transitions (one using the amount of tiles I'll need in my game and another one with the fade out in all of the screen).
FadeTransitionEx.json.zip (3.2 KB)
FadeTransitionEx_20220313231300.zip (30.5 KB)
Also doing this example I've seen there is a delay between "deleting" the fade out and going to another room
This is the code in the teleport item
on collect do
ignore
fadeOutAnimation = 1
wait 2 then
fadeOutAnimation = 2
wait 0.5 then
goto 5,7 in "room2"
fadeOutAnimation = 0
fadeOut_animReset = 0
tell event.player to
swap "player"
end
listen
end
end
end
This is the code in the player's draw
if fadeOutAnimation==1 then
if fadeOut_animReset==0 then
play "tile_fadeOut"
fadeOut_animReset = 1
end
drawCount = 0
drawX = 4
drawY = 0
while drawCount<=152 do
draw "tile_fadeOut" at drawX,drawY
drawCount++
drawX++
if drawX==21 then
drawX = 4
drawY++
end
end
elseif fadeOutAnimation==2 then
fill "black" at 32,0,136,72
end
But anyway this problem can be solved by changing those "reseting" variables in the enter of the next room and works fine, like this:
on enter do
fadeOutAnimation = 0
fadeOut_animReset = 0
tell event.player to
swap "player"
end
end
Also it seems to have the same delay if I put exactly that in the exit event instead.
First of all, knowing about the performance of multiple draw calls is important. Some games might require a lot of objects on screen, like bullets.
For your problem in particular, it looks like you are fading with a repeating pattern. Would something like a single large area drawTiled() call work? You might need to usa a solid color image and setMaskImage() to your fade pattern.
Note that this is a question about Pulp specifically 