Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: Drawing to background. Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:41:31 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: <7k5s87$75r8@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7k4b39$75r3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: th-gt145-118.pool.dircon.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Scott Ward wrote in message news:7k4b39$75r3@chuka.playstation.co.uk... > Wow, I've finally got on the news group. Don't ask me why I couldn't get on > before, it was just me being thick again. > > I've never used a newsgroup before so here's a question to test it out. > > Is there any way to draw images to the background. > For example: > Say I have a game which has lots of aliens > flying about the screen, when the aliens get shot the sprites are replaced > with pictures of dead aliens. However, because the images just need to stay > there without moving or anything is there anyway of drawing them without > sorting them as sprites and therefore maybe saving on speed. Is this a > relevent question or am I just missing the point? > I don't really think its worth trying to integrate the dead player sprite into the background, as you'll probably have more grief attempting this than you will lose in speed. As you're sprites for the aliens, and dead aliens are probably resonably small, so the time taken to do this shouldn't really matter, unless the rest of the game is super processor intensive, which it shouldn't be unless you've advanced that quickly (which by your pessimism it doesn't look like). As I say, unless you've finished the game, and its running slow, and you're working on optimising it, I reccomend you get on with finishing the game, just get some more experience. Worrying about this sort of thing will do you no good. Rikki > Cheers, > > Scott "thick as pig shit" Ward. > > Such self confidence... J/K, don't degrade yourself so much Scott, it will only affect your programming in a bad way. Just remember, although it looks like there's a lot of people better than you in the Yaroze community, just turn around and look out of the Yaroze world and see how many can't even turn on a computer, let alone run a piece of software, let alone program a bit of software, let alone program a hi-tech gaming console like the PlayStation.