Textured sprites

[RPG]

I think that this algorithm must be implemented using shaders. Thus, FPS will be much better, and memory usage - less.

[Lafolie]

I think that this algorithm must be implemented using shaders. Thus, FPS will be much better, and memory usage - less.

Not really. It wouldn't run each frame, just once when the sprites are loaded.

[RPG]

If you have more than 100 different skins you need to pre-render all of them into memory. With shaders you needn't ro do it.

This is simple shader, but unfortunately LOVE doesn't support shaders.

[BlackBulletIV]

There's been a lot of talk about shaders, and vrld (who is a developer) has a fork which has them. I don't know what the status of them is though, I do they get included soon.

[RPG]

Very good

[thelinx]

The difficulty with shaders is that we need to use some kind of shader language that isn't restricted to one drawing backend.

[bartbes]

More importantly, one that is lovely.

[BlackBulletIV]

More importantly, one that is lovely.

Yeah, I'd love to code shaders in Lua with a lovely API, but I don't think that would be very speed efficient (double compilation).

[Robin]

Having a nice set of pre-compiled shaders seems the best option to me.

[BlackBulletIV]

Having a nice set of pre-compiled shaders seems the best option to me.

Meaning people can't make their own? If so: