What are graphics5 and audio2? #1336

algorev · 2021-05-08T17:10:15Z

algorev
May 8, 2021

I'm new here. I've looked at the wiki and the API docs, and i've got two questions:

What is audio2? It seems to be a more complex audio API than audio1, but i have no idea what it does.
What is graphics5? It appears in the API docs, but not on the wiki. Is it the in-progress implementation of graphics3? Is it something else entirely? Is it usable?

Answered by RobDangerous

Audio2 is an API where you just send a stream of audio-samples - see the Audio2-based Audio1 implementation (kha.audio2.Audio1) for an example of how to use it.
Graphics5 is a lower level GPU API where you have to synchronize resources of GPU resources manually and which allows multithreaded usage. But it's only a Kinc thing, not a Kha thing - I deactivated it in Kha because I consider it to be too advanced for Haxe programmers. The code is still in there, that's why you can still see a graphics5_ package. If Haxe will ever receive better multithreading support I might revive it but I don't think that will happen.

RobDangerous · 2021-05-08T17:53:22Z

Audio2 is an API where you just send a stream of audio-samples - see the Audio2-based Audio1 implementation (kha.audio2.Audio1) for an example of how to use it.
Graphics5 is a lower level GPU API where you have to synchronize resources of GPU resources manually and which allows multithreaded usage. But it's only a Kinc thing, not a Kha thing - I deactivated it in Kha because I consider it to be too advanced for Haxe programmers. The code is still in there, that's why you can still see a graphics5_ package. If Haxe will ever receive better multithreading support I might revive it but I don't think that will happen.

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I see. Thanks for the info!