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From: Andrew Partington <andrew.partington@peregrine.com>
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Subject: Re: BackGround Scrolling
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:28:25 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Hi Greg

I did a tutorial a while ago about how to use the Sony GsBG functions:

http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~partinga

Sorry, its not very well written, but there is source code that you can
play with.

For Gravity Girl however, I ditched the supplied GsBG stuff (except for
the nebula-ish background) and wrote my own background drawing routine
using GsSPRITE, because I wanted all the scaling/rotation functions that
the fixed background handler does not support, even though the green
book says there are scale/rotation values for GsBG, Sony did not supply
a version of the background handler that supported this :(

[speaking of Gravity Girl, i'm still working on it guys :)  I had to
redo the handling because I changed my map block sizes from 32*32 to
64*64 and this messed up the parallax/handling, grr!  Just getting the
girl to run around now!]


Hope this helps

Andy


Greg Cook wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know any good links for examples of how to do a Tiled background
> thats larger than the width of the screen? eg an RPG game world. Ive been
> through most of the yaroze archives and the members sites i think, didnt
> find muc info on that though.
> 
> Id like to experiment with getting a Tiled World up and running, that has
> the effect of scrolling when you walk off the edge of the current screen..
> 
> Thanks alot, i hope you all dont mind some of the old questions being asked
> again..
> 
> Greg