combining the sprite manager and a CCD

[KimiYoriBaka]

I'm trying to make a game with bullet hell elements in it. I would like to use the sprite manager to speed up the rendering of any bullets that don't need anything fancy done to them, but I would also like to use the canvas object to draw lasers on the fly. While I know I could just add them both to the same screen, I'm worried that it may cause weird timing issues if I separate them. Would it be inefficient or otherwise problematic to add a sprite manager to the CCD? and if so, is there some other way I could have the CCD control the sprites of the sprite manager?

[Asceai]

Do you mean CDD?

Anyway, anything a sprite manager can do a CDD can also do. All a sprite manager does is render something once and then blit it a ton of times - so you can just do that in your CDD.

Can I recommend against the canvas if you can possibly avoid it? Software rendering is slooooow and I'm sure you can come up with a better way to do lasers.