... interior bytes within the sprite. Drawing a sprite without the shifting (ie ... sharp by updating the player sprite on every frame. How many ... done to take care of flicker, shearing, clipping or colour ...

... that the task of reducing flicker is one of timing - hence ... mechanisms and structures for organising sprite display. Whether or not dmsmith ... to expand it into a 'sprite based game engine' or not ...

... am getting major "tearing", or flicker. I have used IM2 so ... H,A

; MERGE SPRITE COLOR WITH EXISTING PAPER COLOR ...

... the same time to avoid flicker I am confused about
flicker.

So, to create ... draw the bit of any sprite that is now on that ...

... br /> ; Sprite Drawing Routines.
flicker are
; kept to a minimum.

; A sprite ... Sprite id (0 = sprite disabled)
; 1 Sprite ... Sprite id (0 = sprite disabled)
; 1 Sprite ...

... to explain the raster and flicker avoidance.

2. Screen ... />
3. Different types of sprite - char based / line based / preshifted ...

... comments, flicker can be avoided by either drawing your sprite to the ... to then make sure your sprite routine has finished drawing the ...

... background
2. Draw sprite into background
3. ... stored background into sprite
5. Change sprite coordinates
... click on "examples" under Sprite Pack. This particular algorithm has ... give a damn about flicker. Surprisingly, many Spectrum ...

By making the sprite memory (graphics, mask and background ... background as the sprite moves, thus avoiding the flicker that might occur ... when 1) painting over the old sprite ... , and 3) masking the sprite offscreen and 4) painting it ...

... the sprite and redrawing it so fast that there's no flicker ...

...
// create the sprite; on creation, sprite
// is automatically placed ... coordinates
- modify sprite graphic pointers given the displacement ... raster in order to eliminate flicker.

... , and to minimize flicker. It will also ...

... intentional mechanism to sychronise the sprite drawing routines with the timing ... rendering, in order to avoid flicker.

Poking the above ... Pocket Clive, but with serious sprite flicker.

I must investigate ...

... of the way of the sprite area. (ld a,40:in ... , then the sprites start to flicker.

The game is ... clive albeit still with some flicker, but nowhere near as bad ...

... Uridium (remember, it's fave sprite)
The main fella in ... Kung Fu Master, the glitches, flicker, colour clash and most of ...

... sprite draw routines. It started with a single requirement - to be flicker ... free. The usual flicker free strategy is ... another strategy to avoid flicker - don't erase anything ... br />
- The move sprite function has an overhead associated ...

... of a technical document for sprite lib ;-)
Ok, so fair ... about your approach to stopping flicker is that it is very ...

... slight flicker if you do a halt before drawing the sprite (you ...

... routines you can draw a sprite quite easily.

Draw the sprite using XOR in the ... position, then draw the sprite using XOR in the ... .
This will REDUCE flicker, if you get flicking, ... of the sprite, that should help to remove the flicker.
...

[QUOTE=48K]1/ Random number generator: I've started using a ld a,r command to grab a number from the memory refresh counter. Only problem is that if I do this in quick succession, the numbers are obviously not very random at all.
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... few games also had more flicker in parts of the screen ... the techniques used to achieve flicker-free graphics on the Spectrum ... written a software sprite library that will generate flicker-free graphics no ...

... middle of updating a software sprite on the screen when a ... can see part of the sprite but not all of it ... then redrawing all 10? No flicker at all...

One ... frames per update). Yet the flicker problem was resolved by using ...

... goes for all machines with sprite hardware.

The CoCo ... up double buffering to eliminate flicker.

I think the ...

... byte specified within the sprite definition allowed the older ... called to recolour the sprite depending on horizontal shift ... screen, and is how flicker free operation is achieved without ... specialized draw code for sprite characters for specialized situations.< ...

... C, z88dk has a sprite engine for the spectrum that ... supplies commands like "sp1_MoveSpr(...)" (move sprite), "sp1_PrintAt(..)" (print at), etc ... smoothly pixel by pixel and flicker-free. It also has ... a spectrum which has no sprite support at all.
...

... two things to worry about: flicker, which is caused by graphics ... you need multiple copies of sprite graphics shifted by variable ... large distance and the old sprite graphic will still appear ... before deciding to draw each sprite. I noticed that Jonathan ...

... to do to help "visualise" sprite "flicker" and "tearing" in machine ... ) red BEFORE performing the sprite clear/redraw routine and change ...
call sprite_undraw ; rub out sprite from last pos
call ... If you KNOW your sprite is on a character boundary ...

... to handle all display and sprite responsibilities. Using SP1 means we ... care of making all things flicker-free without our having to ... this way because SP1's sprite definitions are also column major ...

... internally breaks up a sprite into its characters and ... screen
sp1_DeleteSpr(p->sprite);
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With the sprite off screen "sp1_DeleteSpr()" is called ... to screen can be done flicker-free.

d_ScrollStart ...

... to use the screen$ and sprite functions within Z88DK. In particular ... .... As you saw the monochrome sprite library is for monochrome sprites ... be to plot the monochrome sprite then overlay it with colour ... you're going to see flicker issues but one never knows ...

... saved file back in, AGD goes back to basic instead ... in then going back to AGD with Rand Usr 24000[/ ... to the menu and AGD crashes back to basic ... [/QUOTE]

Er, yes. AGD tries to sort the sprites ... sort of order to minimise flicker, but the sort wasn' ...