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From: Andrew Murray <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: How do I initialize a sprite?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:08:01 +0000
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I suggest actually making sure the image is as it sould be i.e. is it actually 16 bit ? Is
it alligned corectly in the VRAM diagram in TIMUTIL? - ????????

If all this checks ou then I'm stuck for a soloution.

Max

"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...
>
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