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Why do you have sprites different sizes? Every single sprite in Empyrean is 16x16 regardless of the content of it... even though in Pascal it's easy to dynamically allocate the correct amount of memory with an untyped pointer.
It's just more straightforward from a coding point of view to always subtract 7 from the x and y to centre an image over it's location point... And of course, 99% of the graphics in the game are just 16x16 tiles... it's only the projectiles where it's a serious space wastage.
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he's writing a fighting game, if i'm not mistaken (though you normally use 16x16 tiles to build a larger character in such a game)
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True, but if a person kicks forward, he might need a larger sprite... that's why I started using Multi-Frame-Format...
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That's what i'm talking about. you have 16x16 tiles and a tilemap. This makes for collision detection and variable-sized sprites. It's what they use in most neo-geo and cps2 games.
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and click on "Details", you'll find all the information you need...for all of the video modes that QB supports.
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Quote:That's what i'm talking about. you have 16x16 tiles and a tilemap. This makes for collision detection and variable-sized sprites. It's what they use in most neo-geo and cps2 games.
Yeah. Megaman, you can follow one of the various topics that Kofman started a while ago. Some maping techinques are explained there. You'll find'em very interesting.
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No no, it's not for my fighting game. *snif*
I'm starting up an RPG game now, and I need to know how to manage enemy sizes.
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Those techniques apply also
It is just about breaking bigger sprites in smaller parts, and having only one sprite size.
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Quote:But the problem is... how do I DIM only what I need, because the DIM command is at the top of the program, it won't know what the sizes are, so I'm forced to DIM as high as possible so that anything will fit, I want to know how I can make it know how big the sprite sizes are and DIm only what's necessary, (again, that may have been explained, but it probably flew right over my head...)
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