A demonstration of tilelayers and their strengths

[Hezzy002]

Originally Posted by DrakilorP2P

Can you still cite sources for the first paragraph about how Graal renders layers? This is the first time I've heard anything of it.

If you move large amounts quickly, sometimes the rendering will break up and you get black areas on the level, even when the level data is available. It's only happened with scripts I've made specifically designed to do this, and on gmaps where the area was large enough to actually facilitate this type of error. If it was rasterizing to the screen every frame, then those black areas would disappear after the first frame. Instead, they only clear when you move past the bounds of the screen.

Sometimes you can make the artifacts appear so that the black area is the entirety of the screen and you can watch as the tiles draw onto the buffer.

This is complete conjecture, obviously, as I don't have access to the source of Graal, but those artifacts are telltale of that type of rendering technique being used. There isn't any other way to explain them.