Aura

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 07 May, 2005 1:12 pm

you have to use Zpic to recall them and zsto to store them

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sat 07 May, 2005 1:24 pm

Ok, well i gathered that. Basically they arent really pics, rhater custom vars i guess.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 07 May, 2005 1:28 pm

they are pic vars, just with weird tokens for the pic11 to 255 since there arent any token to display them

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Sun 08 May, 2005 12:34 am

tr1p1ea wrote:Well i just realised that adding support for pics above 9 shouldnt be too hard ... but do you really think that you are going to be able to pull off pixel scrolling?

Two-pixel scrolling in Omnicalc is just fast enough (it'd be nice if it was faster, but it's fast enough not to be annoying) so I imagine at least two-pixel scrolling would be more than fast enough with Xlib, perhaps even true smoothscrolling. For most games it wouldn't be worth the extra mem requirements of string your map data in pics, but since I already have to do that with Aura...

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sun 08 May, 2005 12:58 am

Yeha it would be cool. You couls use a technique similar to the one in Diortem intro, amybe smooth scrolling wouldnt be possible, remember that horizontal sprite width in xLIB and Omnicalc must be multiple of 8

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sun 08 May, 2005 8:06 am

BUT, xLIB allows for clipped sprites, so you might be able to scroll that way ... i would have to change a few things though ...

necro · Post by **necro** » Mon 09 May, 2005 12:14 pm

Any progress?

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 09 May, 2005 3:45 pm

Dysfunction is mostly working on Ender's Game, because he want to finidh it first, it's planned for release on Summer 2005 and Aura is planned for release on Summer 2006

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Mon 09 May, 2005 8:10 pm

Ender's Game is coming along, Aura isn't until Ender's Game is done. that's just the way it is.

necro · Post by **necro** » Thu 12 May, 2005 2:22 pm

Figures the one I am looking forward to is halted...oh well

necro · Post by **necro** » Thu 12 May, 2005 2:22 pm

Figures the one I am looking forward to is halted...oh well

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Thu 12 May, 2005 7:03 pm

You wanna watch those double posts...
Actuall to tell the truth, Aura is the one I'm really looking forward to making AND playing too. But I need to finish Ender's Game.

Post by **Patori** » Thu 12 May, 2005 7:05 pm

yes you do... 2 years in the making...

necro · Post by **necro** » Thu 12 May, 2005 7:15 pm

blame the shcool computers for that...the stupid thing clicked twice and froze

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 12 May, 2005 7:18 pm

ah the old days of the IKB macoderz forums, dont worry it happened twice that I posted 20 times in a row at EPS and once at CalcHaven