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From: "Greg Cook" <gjc53@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: BackGround Scrolling
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:39:05 +1300
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Cheers Andy, ive been going over the sony gear, but another tutorial is a
big help..

Look forward to the latest version of Gravity Girl aswell!

"Andrew Partington" <andrew.partington@peregrine.com> wrote in message
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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