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From: "Antony Arciuolo" <tony1@nac.net>
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Subject: Re: Backgrounds smaller than the visible screen
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:41:29 -0500
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I have a three-layer parallax BG, and it scrolls well, I am just wondering
about overhead... which is more efficient: using 3 GsBGs, or using a sprite
as one of the backgrounds, b/c I imagine that's a big sprite, but I got 3
workspaces, and 3 world layout arrays...

- Tony

Alex Herbert <alex@herbs.dabsol.co.uk> wrote in message
news:82bi0k$4fk5@chuka.playstation.co.uk...
> Hi Tony,
>
>
> Antony Arciuolo <antony.arciuolo@mail.trincoll.edu> wrote in message
> news:829fet$1tu1@scea...
> > Is there a way to prevent a small GsBG map from tiling?
> >
>
> No.
>
> >
> > What I want to do is have three GsBGs for parallax scrolling
> >
> > One will be the ground, one will be the rest of the background (a
forest),
> > and the last will be the mountains through the trees
> >
> > for the ground, I just want three rows of tiles across the entire width
of
> > my level,
> > but do I need to define it with the (in 320x240 res) 12 rows of
> transparent
> > cells?
>
> Yes.  Or you could use sprites instead of a BG.
>
> >
> >
> > - Tony
> >
> >
>
>
> Herbs
>
>