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From: "Rad" <rad@cyberdude.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Yaroze Routines (Help)
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:58:50 +0100
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To bring a sprite to the front (of the screen I presume) you decrease it's
odering table priority
i.e. GsSortSprite(&sprite, OT, 0)
and to send it to the back you increase it's OT priority
i.e. GsSortSprite(&sprite, OT, 99)

To create mulitple objects you could do something like:

GsSPRITE object[WHATEVER];        // declare an array of multiple object
sprites

// initialise your object sprites etc.

// switch off display mode (bit 31)
for (i=0; i<WHATEVER; i++)
{
    object[i] = 1<<31;    // not sure if this is right - certainly not the
best way to do it
}

Then whenever the user presses a button you display the next available
object at those x and y coordinates by setting bit 31 to 0.

Another way to do this instead of using arrays and messing about with the
sprite display mode is to dynamically create a new object each time you need
it.

Should hopefully give you some ideas, even though it's a bit rushed (and
vague) but I must be off to do some revision :(

Rad.
rad@cyberdude.com
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx


Christopher Lightfoot wrote in message
<7hmu29$llu6@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>Is it possible to bring a sprite to the front or send it to the back, also
>can I create multiple object from one
>
>such as:
>I have a tile and when the user presses a button it creates a new on in the
>position of the cursor
>
>Christopher Lightfoot
>(This is all Net Yaroze)
>