[Papervision3D] Speed up Flash with stage quality

[Donovan Adams]

I've experimented with cacheAsBitmap and StageQuality a bit lately. I'm sure
circumstances differ greatly depending on the situation, but with the
application I've been working on lately StageQuality is the way to go. I've
noticed about a 10-20 percent increase in using StageQuality over selected
bitmap caching. To get around the font rendering issue when changing stage
qualities, I use advanced aliasing on text fields when going from HIGH to
MEDIUM during transitions. I don't get text rending artifacts and the
performance seems to still stay the same.

Most importantly be sure to watch out for combinations of cacheAsBitmap and
StageQuality as you will get strange rendering behavior from text fields and
filters. Very buggy.

I'm sure it's similar to the trick of doing a blur filter on the stage
object versus doing a blur filter on individual children.

Increments of the stage quality would be great for doing variable quality,
and even tweening quality;) One more thing for the adobe wishlist.

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