Portal Performance
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Portal Performance
How resource intensive are portals, and what exactly affects it? How many portals can you create before it's likely to affect performance?
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Graf Zahl
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Re: Portal Performance
That depends on the graphics hardware you target. On older hardware even a single portal can cause some noticable slowdown, while on modern mid-range and high end cards you may get away with multiple complex portals before they affect performance too much.
One thing you need to remember is that the sky is also a portal, so an indoor portal in an area with no sky is cheap, but a portal in an area where some sky can be seen will require a full stencil pass - and if both your main view and the portal show some sky it will definitely be too much for older hardware (i.e. OpenGL 3.x or OpenGL 4.0)
One thing you need to remember is that the sky is also a portal, so an indoor portal in an area with no sky is cheap, but a portal in an area where some sky can be seen will require a full stencil pass - and if both your main view and the portal show some sky it will definitely be too much for older hardware (i.e. OpenGL 3.x or OpenGL 4.0)