Esteban Lanter

I'm trying to render a large amount of text from a matrix of chars, which will dynamically change contents depending on input (sound in a later stage). I think I cant rely on any other method of drawing the text than in a jit.window because I want to overlay the visual text output with other effects later on.

So far, I'm only aware of jit.render.gl functions that allow me to render text. I set up a very rough environment and am now getting random numbers into a char matrix which is read from with jit.gl.text in realtime and rendered. Works fine with 16x16 matric of chars, but my laptop almost dies when I go above 64x64. Is there any more efficient way of drawing larger matrices liek 128x128 or even bigger? And is there any way of avoiding jit.render.gl for this? It causes a lot of crashes on my notebook.

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A few inefficient things with the patch. (though it do's struggle with 64 x 64, that isn't jit.gl.render though)

A few inefficient things with the patch. (though it do's struggle with 64 x 64, that isn't jit.gl.render though)
Heres an updated version.
Runs at a solid 33 fps on my system.


Render large amount of dynamically changing text