Any chance we could sticky this? I am constantly searching for it.

OH! So you are saying BLOAD the bmps, assign them to a pointer THEN loop them once and cut it up into more pointers, one for each tile, right? You're right, now that I am thinking of it, that makes a lot more sense. That way I have already done the work of looking up a portion of the image and exclu...

@Rollie Bollocks I am loading entire pages of graphics into ptrs, and then only displaying the peices I need. Beacuse I am using pointers, that should help with any slowness issues. Not sure what you mean about preprocessing the images into arrays and then laying them out in FB.Image format? I have ...

I realize there is a lot going on there, but the problem is the Blocking Terrain section. REM (4) Draw Blocking PUT (x*32,(y*32)-15), pBlocTile, (tileXLoc(Tile(x+screenX,y+screenY,4)), tileYLoc(Tile(x+screenX,y+screenY,4)))-STEP(32, 32), TRANS The Tile(x,y,z) array holds my map, z = 4 means it is th...

Sure: REM Main draw loop FOR y = 0 TO 15 FOR x = 0 TO 20 REM (0) Draw Terrain 1 PUT (x*32,y*32), pTerrTile, (tileXLoc(Tile(x+screenX,y+screenY,0)), tileYLoc(Tile(x+screenX,y+screenY,0)))-STEP(32, 32), PSET REM (1) Draw Select liquid IF rTimer<= 16 THEN PUT (x*32,y*32), pLiqdTile, (tileXLoc(Tile(x+sc...

This is what it is supposed to look like: [img] http://thelamebrain.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/screen1.jpg [/img] Here is the media I am using, the tree on the end. Notice how I had to take the frames out? [img] http://thelamebrain.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/screen2.jpg [/img] Here is the same med...

I am at work, so I do not have the code in front of me. Even if I did, its a bit of a mess with a lot of dependencies, so maybe it is better this way. :) I am using BLOAD'd images set to pointers. I then put a portion of the image to the screen to act as tiles. The tiles are layered, allowing me to ...

Is it possible to return the size of an image from an image file? I am loading several images using BLOAD and a Pointer, but I have to specify the size of the pointer. I would like to be able to have FB read the size of the image, size the pointer in response, and then BLOAD the file to my pointer. ...

Ok, so VAR Declares a variable whose type is implied from the initializer expression.

but how is it different to do rather than do ?

I am building a program framework to put all the peices of my masterpeice in, and I have a question. I want to load a txt file that holds my users preferences, then define the keys for the game based on those preferences. I currently have the keys defined as CONSTants, but if the player changes the ...

Cool! I didn't know you could do that!
Can I use put to put tiles into a large image buffer too?

Ok, what I am trying to accomplish is getting an image that is larger than the screen, and out-putting it to a file.

Anyone know how to do that, since Get and BSave obviously don't do it?

Here is my code: SCREEN 12 DIM AS INTEGER x, y DIM Pic AS ANY PTR Pic = ImageCreate(700,500) FOR x = 1 TO 700 STEP 50 FOR y = 1 TO 500 STEP 50 LINE (x,0)-(x,500),8 LINE (0,y)-(700,y),8 NEXT y NEXT x GET(0,0)-(700,500),Pic BSAVE "Grid.BMP", Pic CLS PUT(0,0),Pic SLEEP It is just a test I was...

Kewl, no complaints then.
(I must have seen that in DarkBasic, not here.)

I have heard that the traditional way to calculate the distance formula is inefficient due to the way BASIC uses square root.


Is there a better way?