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Making my 1970’s-style renderer multi-threaded
The following article describes a Flutter use case that is so niche that I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m literally the only person who has it at this point.
Still, I personally love to read deeply technical articles even when their usefulness for me is unclear at best — so I decided to write this anyway.
Use case
My game is mostly 2D, but it includes a retro 3D renderer. From the start of working on the game, I wanted a specific look which I’m going to call “a combination of 1970s sci-fi aesthetic and modern military UI”.
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For this aesthetic, a “normal”, modern 3D renderer just wouldn’t work. So I decided to create a software (non-GPU) 3d renderer mostly from scratch. This allowed me to have complete control over every aspect of the final look of the 3d objects, and since we live in the 21st century, our contemporary computers are more than capable of running the renderer at high framerates.
Single-threaded beginnings
As a rule, I try to build every prototype feature single threaded first before adding the complexity of concurrency.
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