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Dark GDK / ID for every single sprite necessary?

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InsanitY
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Posted: 6th Aug 2009 13:49
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Hi,

Is it really necessary to give every single sprite an ID? Even if I, for example, have 100 sprites with he same image that I use as a background. Do I need to have spriteID 1 - 100, or is it somehow possible to make something like a groupID, so I can say something like

?

Because having (in this example) 100 unique sprites that have the same image is kind of inconvenient.
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dark coder
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Posted: 6th Aug 2009 17:53
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use dbPasteSprite()?

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InsanitY
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I tried, but it didn't work.. can you please give a code example, maybe I did something wrong :/
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Lilith
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Sprites are more than image holders. They also do housekeeping on where the sprite is located, what orientation it has, what the scale is, etc. If you don't have a sprite to hold that information then you'd have to maintain that information yourself and take care of pasting it to the screen. Using a sprite, along with its ID, allows the system to take care of drawing to the screen when a dbSync() is issued.

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Marsh0
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Posted: 6th Aug 2009 20:54 Edited at: 6th Aug 2009 20:54
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Works fine for me, not sure what your trying to accomplish though.
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Mista Wilson
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I think what he wants is to use a single sprite to display one image, rather than 100 sprites all displaying the one image. He wants to paste the 1 sprite in 100 different places rather than 100 different sprites in 100 different places each loop. I dont know if thats possible though, I havent done alot with sprites.

Hope thats right and makes sense

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Marsh0
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yea my current map loading system uses 1 sprite to draw 300 tiles. I just used the above 2 lines of code in a loop system.
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IanM
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If you are simply tiling, then there's not necessarily a need to use sprites. You can simply dbPasteImage for each tile you wish to place.

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Amnzero
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Quote: "If you are simply tiling, then there's not necessarily a need to use sprites. You can simply dbPasteImage for each tile you wish to place."


Lets hope they are not trying for Isometric.

if(enemy == Amnzero) runAway();
Amnzero->WebSite = L"http://neovance.com/";
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Diggsey
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Quote: "Lets hope they are not trying for Isometric."

Why?

Paste image works with alpha and image colorkeys just like the sprite command does...


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Amnzero
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Posted: 10th Aug 2009 00:50
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can you use values out of the bounds of your with the x and y for PasteImage? I have not really played with it much, but the list of functions I have for images in the documentation is sparse.

if(enemy == Amnzero) runAway();
Amnzero->WebSite = L"http://neovance.com/";
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IanM
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Yes, that's perfectly safe.

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