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- Erase the sprite from screen, restoring previous contents ...

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- Erase the sprite from screen, restoring previous contents ...

... ;592693]Well... My first sprite routines work this way: for ... every sprite, I have a routine to erase it from the ... routine is the calculate-rotate sprite. So, my interrupt routine ... 1 to N
- Erase the sprite from screen, restoring previous contents ...

... draw to while copying the sprite graphic. The sp1 engine ... a selection of provided routines (masked, ORed, XORed, LOAD, etc) ... .

7. Individual sprite characters can be classed as ... faster than other types of sprite engines, the overhead will ...

... draw to while copying the sprite graphic. The sp1 engine ... a selection of provided routines (masked, ORed, XORed, LOAD, etc) ... .

7. Individual sprite characters can be classed as ... faster than other types of sprite engines, the overhead will ...

... , there are games that have masked and overlaid layers of parallax ... screen (with the odd hardware sprite moving about).

... like [I]Dingo[/I]'s sprite routine, where it's actually ... almost simultaneously. One to erase the old sprite line-by-line, and ...

... like [I]Dingo[/I]'s sprite routine, where it's actually ... almost simultaneously. One to erase the old sprite line-by-line, and ...

... like [I]Dingo[/I]'s sprite routine, where it's actually ... almost simultaneously. One to erase the old sprite line-by-line, and ...

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OVER 1 does an XOR between the 8x8 bits of ...

... /> When you make a sprite movement at the screen it ... br />
A) erase sprite at old position
B ... ) draw sprite at new position
... process (you erased the sprite at old position or ... at new position), the sprite will dissappear.
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... is that i have working sprite routine with ability mirror and ... enough to place two 24x48 masked sprites on screen per frame ...

[QUOTE] i have working sprite routine with ability mirror and ... enough to place two 24x48 masked sprites on screen per frame ... off... Is it a generic sprite engine that can be used ... this game?... Id love a sprite engine as versitile as that ...

... which it simply floods the sprite area with a single attribute ... .g. 0) which makes the sprite disappear, even though it doesn ... would then call HALT, erase the last sprite positions, then draw them ... its new position, then the sprite is removed and the object ...

... , I said about providing a sprite draw function. I always wonder ... -defined positions. Afterwards, it can erase however many of them you ...

... which it simply floods the sprite area with a single ... . 0) which makes the sprite disappear, even though it doesn ... would then call HALT, erase the last sprite positions, then draw them ... br />
I considered using sprite rendering instead of scrolling so ...

... ROM). If you position a sprite off-screen it still goes ... optional stuff, deciding what to erase and what to draw next ...

... ROM). If you position a sprite off-screen it still goes ... optional stuff, deciding what to erase and what to draw next ...

... parts of the game;
[*] Erase the bitmaps from the multicolor ... some parts of the same sprite could be rendered with different ...

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Basically, for each sprite, you need to know:
sprite routine that needs to be ... or XOR? There are two methods of combining the sprite data ... with the background. Mask allow sprite priorities (some sprites are drawn ...

... game will be using... Masked sprites means we can ... have background scenary, Non-masked means we can't ... screen number.
- Sprite system is simple, non- ... players path.
- Sprite will thus detect screen pixels ... adding much to have masked sprites in a game ...

... , involve my assumptions about the sprite engine (I don't see ... even adding much to have masked sprites in a game like ... routine able to put four masked 24x24 sprites in one frame ... ) so i would think about masked sprites (and full blown background ...

... routine able to put four masked 24x24 sprites in one frame ... ) so i would think about masked sprites (and full blown background ... needs.
We lack the sprite part, and the engine for ...

... be long enough to xor on off a sprite or two

... told him that maybe the XOR solution is better, because in ... can handle programming with a sprite engine provided to you (you ... would issue move sprite commands and the engine does ... ; you have access to clipping, xor/or/load/mask sprites, background ...

... all the frames for each sprite's animation. Here's an ... can handle programming with a sprite engine provided to you (you ... would issue move sprite commands and the engine does ... ; you have access to clipping, xor/or/load/mask sprites, background ...

... anyone how fast their sprite routines have to ... be masked or not.

Total sprite area ... the total is 36 sprite characters, which actually isn ... of sophistication of the sprite routines a little ... raises the sprite routine sophistication another notch ...

... to anyone how fast their sprite routines have to be ... determine whether things can be masked or not.[/QUOTE]
... level of sophistication of the sprite routines a little bit.[/ ... needs for clipping raises the sprite routine sophistication another notch.[/ ...