Hi all

I am playing around with openglobus and wanted to render a LOT of objects on the globus (custom trees, houses etc.). This is probably a going to be a battle for performance, so I was wondering what would be the most efficient way to do this, and what would be the pro's and cons of each option.

• Entities and 3Dobjects are probably out of the question because I believe rendering 3d objects is one of the most expensive operations. I also don't think we can add custom textures yet?
• Then I thought about billboards. That should be quite performant but I am not sure if it is the look I want to go for.
• I also came across CanvasTiles which might be a great way to render a lot of things, because you do the canvas generation only once (on multiple threads), then it just shows the 'image'. This way you can bundle a lot of sprites in a single draw call. And this can also be animated with a LayerAnimation which is nice!
• And as a final thing I also saw you can use GeoTexture2d to render framebuffers directly. It sounds like it is something performant but I have no idea what this would entail.

I would love you here what others think of this. I know there isn't one right answer, but are there some pro's/cons that I missed with these options? did I get something wrong or are there other options I didn't think about?