Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com
From: dsyaroze <dsyaroze@concentric.net>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Invisible 256x256 TIM limit?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:56:29 -0800
Organization: SCEA News Server
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <34DFFA1D.142B@concentric.net>
References: <34DEE117.184D@netmagic.net> <34df2bfb.1599610@205.149.189.29>
Reply-To: dsyaroze@concentric.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: ts029d20.sto-ca.concentric.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C (Win95; I)

> >I played around with the sprite functions over the weekend and ran
> >into a problem with a 320x240 TIM.  Apparently the width was clipped
> >to 256 pixels.  I don't remember reading about this limitation in the
> >documentation or in any message in this newsgroup.
> 
> That is correct, tim's are 256x256 pixels regardless of the
> resolution. It's in the manual (somewhere) and has been discussed here
> a time or two.

Just to expand on what Mario wrote.  A TIM must fit within one tpage.
And tpage sizes are 256x256, hence the restriction.  So it's not just 
an arbitrary limitation.

Scott