RNS Performance Profiler

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The last weeks I tried to develop shadow mapping for my games. When optimizing the code I was looking for a good way to determine the performance of the different involved tasks and I stumbled upon Zaknafeins Performance Timer.
As numbers alone aren't always sufficient I decided to write a small library that will easily plug into every TV6.5 application and is able to show the performance timers as graph.

This is what I came up with:


I decided to upload the *.dll so that everyone who wants to use it, is able to do so. There is also a small tutorial about how to use it in the *.pdf file that is coming with the *.dll in the package.

The *.dll is .NET 2.0, so it should be possible to use it in at least VB.NET and C#.

New Version 1.1

• added autoscaling for the y-axis
• added alpha channel rendering

[darqSHADOW]

Don't forget that 6.5 also includes an internal profiler -- enable it and it will show you where bottlenecks are in the TV3D Render Pipeline.  Yours definately looks cool, though! 

John

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Yep, the TV6.5 profiler is definitely worth using, but sometimes you need to know how the performance is distributed across several frames.

[Zaknafein]

Excellent! And thanks for making it into a DLL.