[osg-users] R: multiple matrix transfromations cause severe slowness in performance

[Gianluca Natale]

As I said, I’d like to use auto-transformations for those 200 objects, so I need 200 transformations for sure, and those transformations are updated by OSG at rendering time.
So, the transformation has to be computed by OSG out of my vertex shader. Am I wrong?

Da: osg-users <osg-users-bounces at lists.openscenegraph.org> Per conto di Chris Hanson
Inviato: martedì 8 ottobre 2019 14:42
A: OpenSceneGraph Users <osg-users at lists.openscenegraph.org>
Oggetto: Re: [osg-users] multiple matrix transfromations cause severe slowness in performance

Can you find a way to perform the transform on each object in a vertex shader and not have a unique state have to be calculated for each of the 200 objects?

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 6:20 AM Gianluca Natale <natale at europe.altair.com<mailto:natale at europe.altair.com>> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a performance issue in my scenegraph that I cannot completely understand.
My scenegraph is made by a main matrix transform, with these 2 children:

  *   One geode that renders a big object on screen (the geometry in the drawable can take up to several thousands vertices);
  *   One group node that in its turn has 200 children, each made by a matrix transform and a geode. The drawable in each of those geodes is very simple (no more than 100 vertices)
It seems that this configuration allows me to have at most 50 fps.
I feel that this should be rendered much faster.

So I made some experiment. If I remove the 200 matrix transform attached to the group node I mentioned above,
and directly apply the transformations to the vertices of the geometries in the 200 drawables of the small objects, performance improves a lot, till 100 fps.
I investigatd a bit inside OSG code (I’m using OG ver.3.4.1), and apparently the only overhead due to the additional matrix transformations is a call to glLoadMatrix (I’m using the old ffp).
How can you explain such an improvement?

My real problem is that I would like to replace the 200 matrix transfromations with 200 auto-transform matrices, since I’d like those small objects to keep constant size on screen.
But if I do that, I cannot remove the 200 transformations at all, and I’ll end up with a bad performance.
Any idea about what I can try to make rendering of my scenegraph faster?

Thanks,
Gianluca
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