- Create an overload that renders a line in one color, as this allows most existing calls to be simplified. This also allows a slight performance improvement by only normalizing the components once.
- Introduce a DrawLineStrip method. This improves performance by allowing the color components to be normalized once for the whole strip, and only needing to calculate vertices once per point rather than twice since we can reuse the last result.
Reworked the visible cells calculation to ensure the visible region is actually minimal, which should reduce the amount of rendering to be done by a small amount. Previously, the region would tend to overdraw by 2-3 cells in either direction. For isometric maps, there was also a bug where it would draw far too much vertically above the top of the map.
Changes in the shroud are now tracked. If a cell changes it will mark itself and its neighbors as dirty. During the render phase all dirty cells will have their vertices calculated and cached. If a cell is not dirty, the pre-calculated vertices are retrieved from cache. Then the sprite renderer is provided the sprite and the pre-calculated vertices to draw.
This prevents constant recalculation of vertices for the shroud in the render phase, requiring instead only dirty cells in the visible area. The update phase is reduced to a practical noop, instead incurring the cost only of changed cells each frame, rather than checking the visible area.
- Made Array.IndexOf available via extension method.
- Made ToHashSet extension method.
- Change collections queried often via Contains into sets.
- Avoid Count() extension if Count or Length property exist.
- Made Count() > 0 checks and variations calls to Any() instead.
- Don't call ToList/ToArray if there is no benefit to materializing the sequence.
- If the sequence does benefit from materialization, follow this general pattern:
- Collection queried often via Contains use ToHashSet to speed up lookups.
- Short lived variables use ToList. This is because ToArray requires an extra copy to output the final size.
- Collections persisted into fields or for a long time use ToArray to minimize memory overhead.
A globally shared sheet builder leaks memory and resources between mod switches. Instead, we create and inject the sheet builder during mod startup to ensure we still share the builder across all fonts, but can reclaim it when the mod is unloaded.
