External c# dll for rendering bitmaps

[Kingdom Ablaze]

im way better at C# then i am at ruby(mostly due to making 3 games in XNA) and i know that ruby is way slow at processing bitmaps. i was wondering can anyone point me in the right direction. i dont know much about how to make Rudy tell outside dlls how to do stuff. any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Neo-Bahamut]

Ruby isn't slow at processing Bitmaps but RGSS is :P

There is a tutorial for this somewhere but I can't find it.
Anyway, this should help you as well: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=70805
Later in that topic Glitchfinder gives an explanation.

 

[Zeriab]

Ruby is slow at processing Bitmaps as an affect of being interpreted. (I dunno about 1.9.x)
The bitmap methods in RGSS are wrappers probably call internal functions which undoubtedly makes Bitmap manipulation slower.

I heard that the engine is not hardware accelerated which would explain RMXP's slowness perfectly.

Good luck creating some nice DLLs :3

*hugs*

 

[Glitchfinder]

It looks like Neo-Bahamut linked one of my posts on .dll files, so I don't have to do quite as much explaining. However, I would like to note one thing. You have to create the bitmap in RMXP before you can manipulate it, and you are restricted to the specific size that RMXP has for that bitmap. Otherwise, you can do all sorts of neat stuff, so long as you stay within the bitmap's borders.