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From: jamin1@psu.edu (Jamin Frederick)
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Subject: Re: Sprites
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 20:23:08 GMT
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How do you display 2 sprites in separate locations with only one
GsSPRITE struct?

Jamin

On Wed, 02 Jul 1997 02:54:23 -0500, Spellweaver
<spelwevr@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>I have found that you can use a single GsSPRITE structure to draw
>multiple sprites, by changing the (x, y) between calls to
>GsSort[Fast]Sprite().  However, I also noticed that many demos
>(including, I believe, official Sony demos) created a separate
>GsSPRITE for each sprite (even if they are identical in everything
>except location).  Is there some evil that might occur by doing
>it the first way, or some hidden benifit of doing it the second
>way?