Are sprites outside of the view area culled?

[Epitaph64]

If a sprite is completely off-screen does the default rendering code allow those to be culled? If so, is there a way to hook into the culling logic in order to begin animations when a sprite comes on screen? It would be pretty cool if sprites would receive enter/exit screen messages to allow for this behavior.

[Alex_8BitSkull]

Issue: Frustum culling (DEF-2749)

[Epitaph64]

Ah thanks, I remember seeing that awhile ago but I think it was in the tilemap culling thread so I thought that was tilemap specific. Definitely looking forward to that improvement

[Alex_8BitSkull]

Give it a thumbs up on github to push it to the top!

[Mathias_Westerdahl]

A first version (for sprites) is now available in the alpha build:

Culling

The frustum culling has now landed in in the dev branch (the alpha version), and you can now test it out in your render script (enabled by default in the default.render_script) If you have a custom render script, you need to pass in a frustum matrix to the render.draw()calls: documentation Currently, the only component supporting culling is the sprite component. We’ll add support for them, one by one in order to ship the feature as soon as possible. Next up is the mesh component.