Re added nifty optimization to not render fully transparent quads

git-svn-id: https://jmonkeyengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@10936 75d07b2b-3a1a-0410-a2c5-0572b91ccdca

engine/src/niftygui/com/jme3/niftygui/RenderDeviceJme.java

@@ -333,6 +333,12 @@ public class RenderDeviceJme implements RenderDevice {
     }
     
     public void renderQuad(int x, int y, int width, int height, Color color) {
+        //We test for alpha >0 as an optimization to prevent the render of completely transparent quads.
+        //Nifty use layers that are often used for logical positionning and not rendering.
+        //each layer is rendered as a quad, but that can bump up the number of geometry rendered by a lot.
+        //Since we disable depth write, there is absolutely no point in rendering those quads
+        //This optimization can result in a huge increase of perfs on complex Nifty UIs.
+        if(color.getAlpha() >0){
             colorMaterial.setColor("Color", convertColor(color, tempColor));                        
 
             tempMat.loadIdentity();
@@ -342,6 +348,7 @@ public class RenderDeviceJme implements RenderDevice {
             rm.setWorldMatrix(tempMat);
             rm.setForcedRenderState(renderState);
             colorMaterial.render(quadGeom, rm);
+        }
         
         //System.out.format("renderQuad1(%d, %d, %d, %d, %s)\n", x, y, width, height, color.toString());
     }