Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: vabs,SFX and still PAL 256? Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:02:52 +0000 Organization: Bacardi Ferrari V12 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <34DA1AEC.9B8@manc.u-net.com> References: <34D6451C.17BD@manc.u-net.com> <34d657dd.5219332@news.playstation.co.uk> <34D77A43.6FEE@manc.u-net.com> <34d7a1ad.11745641@news.playstation.co.uk> <6bad6j$b211@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <34D8D7B9.6B42@manc.u-net.com> <34d905b8.19424401@news.playstation.co.uk> <34D97342.6EF3@manc.u-net.com> <34d9c07f.2136491@www-s.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Gil Jaysmith wrote: > Confused. I thought PutDispEnv/PutDrawEnv with 320 and 256 for the > screen dimensions and say 0 and 24 for the offsets would set 256-line > PAL mode. Hmmmm. I shall confer with someone knowledgeable. I believe PutDispEnv is for GPU drawing clipping etc. not what screen mode your in. I use manual graphics (LoadImage etc.) not ordering table GPU stuff for Gravitation for reason which become obvious when you see the accurate collision detection. (although with obvious limitations). > You aren't supposed to have game action within 8-16 pixels of the > border of the play area, incidentally, as on some TVs it might not be > visible. Games like Tekken (which don't care!) have a feature to > adjust the screen position. ?? I can have game action where the hell I like!! There'd be few ground-breaking games if people always stuck to certain constraints (not that my game is particularly ground-breaking...) Fair enough about action space (my ships are naturally limited to no less than 7 pixels from the egde) but I can't even draw any of my map in the space (to give a proper overscan effect) If you look at my game my points should make more sense to you regarding the maps/play area and screen height as you don't seem to know what I mean... Er, no again, I'm not using a TV (I use a fully adjustable RGB monitor) and like I say I CAN see the space, but it's black and not writable. (max screen height still 240 with BLACK BORDERS)........ Thanks for trying to help me anyway, Jim -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj -----------------------------------------