Display Pipeline Draw Multiple 3dText Objects

[mrhe (Mariusz Hermansdorfer)]

Hey there,

I’m working with a display conduit where I draw multiple text objects using the DisplayPipeline.Draw3dText method. All overloads only accept a single text input which in my case results in several thousands individual calls to the display pipeline. This is slow and bogs down the main thread.

Is there a way to draw all the text at once similar to how we can pass an IEnumerable of Point3d in this method ?

[mrhe (Mariusz Hermansdorfer)]

Bumping this thread. Any ideas @nathanletwory, @stevebaer ?

[kitjmv (jmv)]

Maybe you can merge all your text into one Mesh object and draw this mesh object…

Creating Text to colored mesh

Here is a small script. There are 2 C#, one ouputting all fonts (424 for me) and one outputing Brep. Brep are changed to mesh outside C#. It is surely not difficult to do it inside, so you can do it. There is no placement of the text. I am quite sure many plugins do this type of work but it was interesting to remake this script with the new Rhino 6 objects. [image] [Frame_] text_curve_rhino6.gh (10.4 KB) And for the record https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/T_Rhino_DocObj…

[dale (Dale Fugier)]

Hi @mrhe,

Can you provide a simple code sample, that we can run here, that you feel is slow?

Thanks,

– Dale

[mrhe (Mariusz Hermansdorfer)]

Sure,

here is a minimal code example:

  private static List<Point3d> _points;

  public static void PostDrawObjects(object sender, Rhino.Display.DrawEventArgs args)
  {
    if (_points == null || _points.Count == 0)
      return;

    foreach (var point in _points)
    {
      var plane = new Plane(point, Vector3d.ZAxis);
      args.Display.Draw3dText(point.X.ToString("0.00"), System.Drawing.Color.Black, plane, 12, "Arial", false, false);
    }
  }

And here it is wrapped in a GH file.
text.gh (7.8 KB)

To keep things simple, I put this logic to the DrawViewportWires override, but in my Rhino plugin the above code resides in DisplayPipeline.PostDrawObjects

[dale (Dale Fugier)]

Hi @mrhe,

The display performance isn’t horrible - I’m getting about 25 frames/second. But it isn’t great either.

Conduits in RhinoCommon do not cache annotations. They do for Breps and meshes. This is something we can add.

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-72585

– Dale

[mrhe (Mariusz Hermansdorfer)]

Thanks @dale,

it would be awesome if these could be cached, but also if we could pass these as an IEnumerable to avoid multiple calls to the display pipeline. In my application these text objects change quite often hence cache would be invalidated anyway.

Ideally, you’d give us access to the underlying buffer and an option to replace individual text objects.

EDIT: @dale, the link you included in the issue pointing back to this discussion thread is broken. Could you please fix it so that @stevebaer, who is assigned to this issue can find it? Thanks!