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From: Alex Herbert <aherbert@ndirect.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: GsBackground functions
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:55:29 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Sonia Pursley wrote:

> All -
>
> I've been playing with the GsInit/SortFixBg16 background functions and I'm
> a tad confused.
>
> The functions themselves work as expected - constructed as they are from
> instances of GsCELL glued together with a GsMAP & GsBG.
> However, my confusion arises from the fact that while GsMAP allows you to
> specify cell height and width (cellh,cellw) and GsBG allows you to specify
> scale and rotation values, the drawing function GsSortFixBg16 confines you
> to a fixed cell size of 16x16 with no scale or rotation functionality.
>
> Is there another slower but more feature rich rendering function that also
> employs the BG/MAP/CELL structures (as with SortSprite and SortFastSprite)
> or am I missing the point somewhere?
>

No, you're spot on, but those functions are not part of the Yaroze dev kit.

Herbs