Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Ira Rainey Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.beginners Subject: How to ... Display sprites. Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:13:37 +0100 Organization: shadow developments Lines: 43 Message-ID: <33931B5F.595@netcomuk.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-11-17.netcomuk.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) How to ... Display sprites. As promised, I have written some documentation and source code for the display of sprites for use by anybody who needs it. The docs started out short, but ended up about eight pages long. They're pretty detailed without being complicated, I just cover the necessary bits to get the sprite from your head onto the screen. The source code is short, functional, well documented with comments, and easy to follow. The docs and source code are available now, including the executable and a sample TIM from my ftp site at: http://www.playstation.co.uk/~shadow/ftp/ It's available as a .zip file for PC, with the docs in Word 6 format & Ascii text, and .hqx format for Mac with the docs in Wordperfect 3.1 format & Simpletext. If you can't access the SCEE ftp, mail me and I will mail it to you, just say what format you want it in. I know how frustrating it can get when you are trying to get stuff working, it took me a couple of weeks to get my head round it all. So I just hope this makes life easier and quicker for those of you who are struggling and starting out - have faith we've all been there. How about continuing this "How to .." series, if anyone else could knock together some docs and source code for say, basic 3D, basic sound, using Yaroze on Mac/Amiga/Linux, assembler on Yaroze, collision detection, etc, etc. Source code alone without docs can sometimes just be confusing. Perhaps SCEE could give us some more FTP space for a "How to .." area, and then people could upload stuff there for the benefit of everyone. How about it people, after all, we're all in this together. Ira -- "Never take life too seriously, 'cause you know you're not getting out of it alive." - Bugs Bunny