Question

I’m making a game which involves multiple “balls” using the same class, I have everything working the way I want it to using a ArrayList but my problem is that the more of the balls I add the slower it renders them. This makes the game look like it is going slow and it will flicker, I can’t provide a video sorry, but I can provide the code I am using the draw the balls:

code:

for(int i=0;i<balls.size(); i++){
    Ball tmp = (Ball) balls.get(i);
    g2d.drawImage(tmp.getImage(), tmp.getX(),tmp.getY(),null);
}   

Could you give me examples or direction for a better way to render the balls?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For the flickering, you’ll want to learn about double buffering. If the slowness is something aside from perception due to not double buffering, you’ll have to profile it or maybe show some more code.