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From: "pal" <pal_news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: worms
Date: 20 Aug 2001 14:03:48 GMT
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I have no idea how they actually did, but I've been thinking about that
problem when playing Lemmings, which is similar I think.

What I would do, if the landscape is too big to entirely fit in memory (and
therefore supposedly tiled or something), is to have a 1bit-depth bitmap
the size of the whole landscape (this one should fit in memory) that
represents only whether a pixel is 'ground' or 'empty'. When displaying,
this bitmap would be used as a mask. It would also be used when processing
game logic.

It's like the game logic uses black&white, only the display uses colour.

I'd really like to make some game using that system. If anyone has other
suggestions, please tell us!


pal