Subject: Re: [stella] Star Fire: Shootable! From: Manuel Polik <cybergoth@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:11:15 +0200 |
Hi there! Rasty wrote: >About the game, do you think it could be possible to avoid the flickering of >your shots (by using missile graphics)? I've been discussing this with Thomas quite some time now. While Thomas is certain it can be done with Missiles (I'm not! :-)), the major problem with these would be their color. I cannot control their color, it'd be the color of whatever sprite is on the same vertical position. So I think using the missiles will look very crappy. Now I had the idea of using Playfield instead. I just finished a design-study of how a laser PF animation could look like: http://home.arcor.de/cybergoth/xype/sfshot.gif (Sorry, I was too lazy to program it. I wanted to see the result first :-)) Now, the two choices are: - Try the playfield solution as shown in the GIF - Keep it as it is. If the feedback here would be towards the first solution, I'd give it a try (with Thomas help hopefully) otherwise I'd continue with the current Sprite-Lasers. Rob wrote: > Very playable! I eventually converted all the enemy > ships into little red dots and then I noticed a funny > artifact (this is in stella.sdl under Linux): on the > right edge of the screen appears one of your shots, > constantly moving from top to bottom as if it's an > enemy ship just out of your range. Right now this is most likely due to a timing bug in Stella, but I'll rework that part of the code anyway, so the next version should display well on all emulators again. Thanks for the note. > One big problem though-- the way ships just "pop" on > and off the screen. Any way to fix this? It probably was solvable, but all the solutions I can think of would either require 8 times the ROM I use right now for graphics, tons of RAM or precious kernel cycles or all of it. That is for the horizontal "popping". I probably might find easy solutions for the vertical "poppings", though. I'll think about the problem. Greetings, Manuel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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