Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 02/26/07 02:05

On 25 Feb 2007 17:40:55 -0800, "dimo414" <dimo414@gmail.com> wrote:

>> ...my advice to you would be to pay a little more and get a second server
>> for the image rendering. Or else get a new service with better servers. :P
>
>I disagree - certainly, if you /absolutely need/ to render the image
>every time then you're going to have to do something drastic like
>getting a second server. But it's much faster and more efficient to
>pre-render it when there isn't server load, then save it to the
>server. I'm not sure what you're trying to do with these images, but
>if you're resizing them, for instance, you should do all resizing at
>upload, and save all the images to the server. This means more demand
>on the hard drive, but FAR less demand on the server overall.

Well there's currently...billions...possibly trillions, of different
combinations:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/RMXP_CSG/

Mostly because you can alter the hue, saturation, and lightness on
different parts, some parts even have up to three color areas that can
be altered with around 100 different parts total (with 1 to 5 more
being added each week)...so needless to say, prerendering is out. A
better way might be to either rebuild it in Java or use Java for the
image rendering since it can then be done client side...although I'm
not ~entirely~ certain if Java even has such capability...further
there would be compatibility issues and complications. I might also
be able to speed it up if I can figure out how to transfer an array
from Flash to PHP. Right now it has to take 128 giant chunks of image
data, break it all apart and then assign each part to a pixel
location. If it was processed from an array it wouldn't have to break
anything apart.

I could speed it up even further with or without the array by
assigning all background color instances a value of say "N" and then
it would just skip assigning those color locations, which would
already be the background color.

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