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From: Ed Fear <gookaloo@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners
Subject: Enemies in a Space Invaders Clone
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 16:46:42 +0000
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Hey,

I woz just wondering what you guys would do when faced with the fact
that you need 20 enemies on the screen at a time?  I was thinking of
doing something like this

typedef struct {
GsSPRITE sprite;
int dead;
} enemy

enemy Enemies[20];    // as a global


And then whenever I get to the main loop and I have to enter the sprites
into the OT, do this:

for (i = 0; i < MAX_SPRITES, i++)
{
  if (Enemies[i].dead = 0)
   GsSortFastSprite(&Enemies[i].sprite, WorldOT[activeBuff], 0);
 }

so that when the enemy is shot, dead is set to 1 and it is not drawn.

Does this seem the most sensible idea?

Cheers,

Ed :)