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From: Spellweaver <spelwevr@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: non-displayed sprites
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 11:27:17 -0500
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Quoth Ed Federmeyer:
   > Mario Perdue wrote:
   [ ... ]
   > > Setting them off screen would probably work, however, bit 31
   > > of the Sprite attribute controls the sprite display mode.
   > >     0 = displayed
   > >     1 = not displayed
   >
   > I think I don't understand something here.  If you have a bunch
   > of sprite data structures defined in main RAM, and don't want
   > some of them displayed, why not just "not sort them" into the OT?
   > In other words, only call GsSortSprite() on the sprites you want
   > displayed.  I'm not quite sure what you get from sorting in a
   > sprite with an attribute bit 31 set to 1 (not displayed).

If you have all of the sprites in a large array, then you can just
run through the array GsSort[Fast]Sprite()ing all of them, without
worrying about which to draw and which to skip over.