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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: How do I initialize a sprite?
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 02:11:26 GMT
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Hey Daniel,

I was wondering.  By starting from a char* and casting it to an
unsigned long *, are you sure the variables will be properly aligned
to be read by the PSX?

I know I've been blaming this issue for many things, but remember,
that different data types need to be aligned on specific boundaries.

Steven

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:02:59 +0000, "CONVICT_AT_LARGE@YAHOO.COM"
<convict_at_large@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Thanks!  That was a great help it confirmed what I thought was the correct order
>for setting up a sprite.  I've written a function to load 16 bit sprites from a
>buffer in memory (an array of chars), I've loaded the tim in using the MWbload
>function of CodeWarrior.  But something really weird keeps happening, the
>LoadImage function never seems to successfully load the sprite into VRAM!  It
>always fails, my programming lecturer has looked at this and he says the code is
>sound.  We both spent a hour this morning trying to get it to work, I've
>attached the offending *.c and *.h files if your interested.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Daniel Brown
>University of Abertay Dundee
>
>PS:- I think the their will be a variant of the masters course next year that
>will be a distance learning degree I don't know if that is the one you are
>looking into...