Rendering in luxe¶
Please note that rendering is a fairly wide and deep topic.
Concepts¶
The concepts page covers important concepts related to how things are rendered in luxe. This covers topics like targets and viewports, for deciding how and where things render.
Tiers¶
In luxe, rendering occupies mutliple tiers of access/usage.
On the user facing side, there is a high level and a low level.
Internally there are more layers, like mid level and lowest level (the backend, which abstracts away graphics APIs, making it portable).
High level¶
In a typical game, a lot of the time, you render Worlds, and not individual objects.
This includes Modifier Systems that provide drawing, like Sprite, Mesh or UI,
as well as Service APIs like the Draw drawing API, which places its contents into the world.
The world will track which renderable items are in it, and when that world is rendered, the active ones will be submitted to be drawn.
Low level¶
Below that, you can access the Render API directly,
which offers access to Geometry and more, as well as a Render.submit call.
This allows manually controlling which geometry is submitted and when, as well as offers access to modifying geometry or images directly.
Differences¶
It's important to remember that the higher level tools will be doing work for you. If you bypass that work, you'll have to do more work yourself.
More details on each: