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World360 update, now with PNG bug!

Published by Ronny on February 14th, 2009 in Actionscript, Experiments. 10 comments Tagged with , , ,

Yesterday I decided to get back to my so called ‘World360′ experiment. I wanted to speed up the pre-rendering engine. I managed to do that, with some amazing results: Up to 3 times faster overall. Peaks of 800% speed gain!

You can view the previous version here.
The latest version can be viewed here.

I’m very happy with that, but there’s one little problem. I started to notice a very ugly black border around redrawn PNG transparency (which happens when the animation is pre-renderd).

Result without redrawing bitmap

Result without redrawing bitmap (aka: real time rendering)

Result when redrawing the bitmap

Result when redrawing the bitmap (aka pre-rendering)

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