Batch labels and sprites current status

[badmonkee]

hi all,

i want auto-batch bm-fonts and sprite but i don’t really understand what happend since the problem was mentioned 2 months ago:

Mixing sprites and bitmap fonts on a single texture to limit draw calls

Hi all! I’m trying to use one spritesheet with sprites AND bitmap fonts to limit GL draw calls - the trick is to put the spritesheet filename into the .fnt file definition. Adding only bitmap labels works as expected (multiple labels are drawn in single call), but after mixing sprites and BM labels alternately, the renderer invokes multiple draw calls - despite getting images from the same texture (as shown in cached texture info). SpriteFrameCache::getInstance()->addSpriteFramesWithFile("res…

apperently the reason the BM Fonts are not batchable with sprites is because of the QuadCommand the labels use.
but i also found that recardo managed to merge these things in here into the v3 branch:

Renderer improvments: TriangleCommand and QuadCommand merged

my tests have shown that the batching is still not working (v3). i see 3 draw calls when i do this:

SpriteFrameCache * cache=SpriteFrameCache::getInstance();
cache->addSpriteFramesWithFile(“res/main.plist”);
addChild(Sprite::createWithSpriteFrame(cache->getSpriteFrameByName(“imageFromSpriteSheet.png”)));
auto offset = SpriteFrameCache::getInstance()->getSpriteFrameByName(“fontFromSpriteSheet.png”)->getRectInPixels().origin;
addChild(Label::createWithBMFont(“res/main.fnt”, “Cocos rules”, TextHAlignment::LEFT, 0, offset));
addChild(Sprite::createWithSpriteFrame(cache->getSpriteFrameByName(“imageFromSpriteSheet.png”)));


so my question is what the current status is. is there a way to batch labels & sprites with v3.10? is something planned for v3.11 to fix this? the roadmap shows something related: https://trello.com/b/Np6obnuE/cocos2d-x-roadmap
but does not mention the version or date for this issue.

thanks!