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Jedd
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| i've been programming on my ti83 for a while, but ive never gone beyond reading the stupid booklet it came with or just trying stuff. can someone explain to me what sprites are exactly and how i can use them in my games? thanks. |
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Darth Android
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| Posted: 20 Nov 2003 11:58:27 pm Post subject: |
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| when you have a graphical game, you dont rewrite the whole screen each time the character moves. instead, you write the "background" once, and the character or "sprite" (usually 8by8, 12by12, or 16by16 pixels) moves around over the background. |
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Jedd
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2003 12:16:20 am Post subject: |
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| thanks, that makes sense now. looking around at the other forums ive got a pretty good understanding now. how would you make a sprite that covers the whole screen? or do you? |
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Darth Android
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2003 12:23:19 am Post subject: |
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| you dont. that would be a background. now, you can "scroll", or move the background as the character walks/moves, but cant think why else you would want a sprite the size of the screen... |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 21 Nov 2003 02:39:18 am Post subject: |
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Keep in mind sprites are slow in basic and thus full-screen one's should never, ever, be used.
I'm afraid it might disturbe the time-space-continuüm. |
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AlienCC
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Joined: 24 May 2003
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| Posted: 22 Nov 2003 07:17:09 am Post subject: |
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You may or may not find this useful for your sprites:
TI-Basic Routines (aliencc.com)
Its something I wrote a few years back, and its almost as quick as it gets in basic if I remember correctly.
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DarkerLine
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| Posted: 22 Nov 2003 02:41:13 pm Post subject: |
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| The Sprite Usage topic has using sprites explained. Also, there are lots of sprites in the Sprites topic |
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