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[D3D9] Texture.Fill() method 11 months 4 days ago #260

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Hello,

I want to fill a texture I created from scratch with an array of Color4.

The Lock-Unlock method is not because of the Pool.Default, so I wanted to try the .Fill() method with a TextureShader. How can I create a TextureShader ? Or perhaps it is easier to use the Fill2DCallback ?

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Yann

Last Edit: 11 months 4 days ago by xoofx.

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Re: [D3D9] Texture.Fill() method 11 months 2 days ago #292

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You can use Lock/Unlock on a managed resource, and copy from that managed resource to the final texture using Device.UpdateTexture.

Never tried Fill2DCallback, It is a d3dx function, so they are probably using internally Device.UpdateTexture and a temporary lockable texture.

Texture.Fill method is expecting a TextureShader, which is a special HLSL shader compiled with the profile tx_1_0, used rarely.

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Re: [D3D9] Texture.Fill() method => GetData & SetData 11 months 2 days ago #296

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OK thanks for the UpdateTexture tip

Here's some two basics extensions GetData and SetData, I don't know if it is the best way to do this, but it works.

public static void GetData(this Texture texture, out Color4[] colors)
{
    DataStream stream;
    SurfaceDescription s = texture.GetLevelDescription(0);
    if (s.Pool == Pool.Default)
    {
        throw new Exception("Impossible to retrieve data form a Pool.Default Texture ?");
    }
    else
    {
        texture.LockRectangle(0, LockFlags.None, out stream);
        colors = new Color4[stream.Length / 4];
        for (int i = 0; i < colors.Length; i++)
        {
            colors[i] = stream.ReadColor4();
        }
        texture.UnlockRectangle(0);
    }
}

public static void SetData(this Texture texture, Color4[] colors)
{
    DataStream stream;
    SurfaceDescription s = texture.GetLevelDescription(0);
    if (s.Pool == Pool.Default)
    {
        Texture tmpTexture = new Texture(texture.Device, s.Width, s.Height, 0, s.Usage, s.Format, Pool.SystemMemory);
        tmpTexture.SetData(colors);
        texture.Device.UpdateTexture(tmpTexture, texture);
        tmpTexture.Dispose();
    }
    else
    {
        texture.LockRectangle(0, LockFlags.None, out stream);
        for (int i = 0; i < stream.Length / 4; i++)
        {
            //write Color4 doesn't work for this
            stream.Write(colors[i].ToArgb());
        }
        texture.UnlockRectangle(0);
    }
}

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Re: [D3D9] Texture.Fill() method => GetData & SetData 5 months 3 weeks ago #1298

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the following part is very slow in C#

for (int i = 0; i < stream.Length / 4; i++)
{
            //write Color4 doesn't work for this
            stream.Write(colors[i].ToArgb());
}

I had a project where I did this part in an managed c++ dll, it was very very fast.

an other idea:

{
texture.LockRectangle(0, LockFlags.None, out stream); // fixed
var bitmap = new Bitmap(width, height, width * 4, PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb, stream.DataPointer);
var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap);

graphics.Clear(color);

graphics.Dispose();
texture.UnlockRectangle(0);
graphicsbitmap.Dispose();
}

Something like this, has extra costs because of the bitmap creating and graphics. But the graphics.Clear ist much much faster than the for (int i = 0; i < stream.Length / 4; i++).

Anyone a better solution?

Last Edit: 5 months 3 weeks ago by Boemer. Reason: fixed out stream

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Re: [D3D9] Texture.Fill() method => GetData & SetData 5 months 3 weeks ago #1299

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DataStream is not really efficient, as it is using a current position and needs to update it. Graphics.Clear on the other hand is using probably behind the scene a memset.

Also, texture.LockRectangle() is returning a DataRectangle and not a DataStream. If you want to clear it, just use Utilities.ClearMemory(stream.DataPointer, 0, size); (which is a memset).

Basically, if you need to achieve almost the same speed than in C++, you need to do it the same way (using unsafe...etc.) and not going through some "high level" classes that could add some unnecessary overhead for your usecase.

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Re: [D3D9] Texture.Fill() method => GetData & SetData 5 months 3 weeks ago #1313

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Hi xoofx,

thanks for the stream fix, (fixed it in the example).

When using Utilities.Clear, you can only write a byte, not an 32 bits integer (for a color). (I didn't know about the utilities class before... thanks..)

I build an example with IntPtr:

var datarectangle = texture.LockRectangle(0, LockFlags.None);
int fillcolor = System.Drawing.Color.Red.ToArgb();
unsafe
{
int *iptr = (int*)datarectangle.DataPointer.ToPointer();
for (int i = 0, j = width * height; i < j; i++)
{
*iptr = fillcolor;
iptr++;
}
}
texture.UnlockRectangle(0);

I made a benchmark by filling a texture of around 1000x120 px 100 times.

- stream.write method => 260 ms
- unsafe ptr method => 33 ms
- gdi graphics.clear method (internal GDI polygon) => 6.6 ms
- memset (Utilities.ClearMemory), but only 1 byte => 2.2 ms

Any better alternative? memset isn't usable with a 32 bits integer; And I don't like using gdi in directX...

Last Edit: 5 months 3 weeks ago by Boemer.

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Re: [D3D9] Texture.Fill() method => GetData & SetData 5 months 3 weeks ago #1319

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Unfortunately, there is nothing directly accessible in .NET to do this efficiently (apart from using Graphics GDI as you found, but this seems to be a bit laborious). For the unsafe loop, I would try to clear the value using a struct with 4 colors values, thought that won't probably change much.

The best method would be to use a DLL function using some SSE2 instructions that would loop and set 128 bits values in one shot, This would be the fastest option.

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