How to render a 3D model faster?

[Riuga]

I've been developing a 3D game using just standard JavaSE libraries for about a month now. I just got 3D model loading and rendering to work, I tested this with the Standford Dragon (.obj file, 1,000,006 vertices iirc) and it takes 0.15 ms to complete rendering. How can I render this faster?

Also, if I were to use LWJGL instead, would this be any faster?

[HeroesGraveDev]

Also, if I were to use LWJGL instead, would this be any faster?

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[theagentd]

I've been developing a 3D game using just standard JavaSE libraries for about a month now. I just got 3D model loading and rendering to work, I tested this with the Standford Dragon (.obj file, 1,000,006 vertices iirc) and it takes 0.15 ms to complete rendering. How can I render this faster?

Also, if I were to use LWJGL instead, would this be any faster?

Pretty sure it takes longer than 0.15 ms. That would give you a performance of 1 000 006 / 0.00015 = 6 666 706 666 vertices per second. If that's really the case, I think every graphics programmer in the world would want to have a word with you.

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[Riuga]

I just rechecked, it was 50,016 vertices and 100,012 faces

[theagentd]

That's still 333 440 000 vertices per second. I'm pretty sure your timings are wrong unless you've figured out how to do a 4D matrix-vertex multiply and a w-divide in 10 clock cycles in Java. What FPS are you getting and exactly how are you rendering this with "standard JavaSE libraries"?

[Riuga]

long now = System.nanoTime();

//render...

System.out.println((System.nanoTime() - now) / 1000000);

Output: 1468

seems like i missed 2 zero in converting nanos -> millis

[theagentd]

Thought so. =D In that case, you will get around 100x to 1000x better performance with LWJGL depending on the hardware you run it on. Do you have a link to the .obj file?

[Riuga]

I got it from here http://www.mrbluesummers.com/3572/downloads/stanford-dragon-model

[gouessej]

Also, if I were to use LWJGL instead, would this be any faster?

I assume you use software rendering, don't you? If you used hardware rendering, it would be faster, whatever the binding for the OpenGL API you use (JOGL, LWJGL). I switched to hardware rendering in 2007 and it was really efficient but the biggest increases of frame rate came from several kinds of culling and mesh optimizations.

Edit.: I'm pretty sure your timing is wrong too. Force the high precision timer if you're under Windows.

[theagentd]

Around 400 FPS, depending on how many pixels it covers. That's untextured and with no lighting though, but those things won't make it much slower.

400 FPS = 2,5ms = 587,2x faster.

That was on a GTX 260/275. The fastest cards today are around 3-4x faster.