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From: "Rikki Prince" <rprince@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: How to stretch a sprite?
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 02:26:20 +0100
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"pal" <pal_news@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:01c13302$6b125800$0f2e1bd4@pal-s-omnibook...
> Ooops... I should have been more precise. What I want is to stretch
a
> sprite so that its shape becomes non-rectangular (it's called a
trapezoid
> or trapezium I think). Like when projected with perspective. Like in
the
> Star Wars openings ;)

You would probably have to do it line by line, as scale down the width
and height as each line 'goes into the screen'. Shouldn't be too
difficult. Create a struct with a GsSprite and other details (ie. a z
value) and write a function to change the z value of each every x
frames, and update the scaled height and width (use trig to work out
based on the angle they are going into the screen at).

HTH,
Rikki