Big Performance Hit!!

fallingbrickwork · 2002-09-04T20:27:48

Hi all, I am currently writing a simple `Space Invaders` type game and wanted a nice colourful space type background behind all the action. I thought of using a texture mapped QUAD... How wrong was I?! The frame rate of the game is fine until I turn &#111n this QUAD. It then drops dramatically!! As the QUAD is sitting behind all the action it has to be very big to appear to fill the screen, is this what is slowing the frame rate?? Is it not a good idea to use very big QUADS?? How would you display a nice colourful background? I didn''t think using &#79NE large QUAD would have such an effect of the FPS! Many thanks, fallingbrickwork.