Fast Tile Engine

[BlizzCrafter]

Just wanted to add that to the topic because it could be of interest:

MonoGame.StaticBatch - could be useful to some of you guys

Hi all, I wrote a lib that takes a lot of static sprites and merge them into a grid of render targets, then draw only the visible textures using a simple grid-based culling. Here’s a screenshot to illustrate what I mean: [image] In the pic above instead of drawing all those skeletons, trees and tiles separately, they were merged into a grid of textures (marked with white lines) during initialization, so now we only need to draw 9 textures to show them all. It reduced ~1500 draw calls to 9. …