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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / making bitmap stay

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BOC4J
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 01:57
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is there any way to keep the bitmap on the screen whilst you have otherthings going on (ie sprites) or do you have to keep loading it every frame?
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indi
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 07:51
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u could make it a sprite itself.

keep updating it each loop

make it a 3d plain

so depending on your requirements.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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IanM
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Posted: 3rd May 2003 14:03
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Yes, you have to load it every frame - but there are many ways to do this.

Indi's given you a few ways, but you could also redraw it using:
PASTE IMAGE if the background is stored in a image
COPY BITMAP if the background is stored in a bitmap

Also, if you're redrawing the display every time anyway, then there's no need for your sprites to save their background, so use the SET SPRITE command to switch this off. I have no idea why this is on by default, because it seems that there's actually no use for it.
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BOC4J
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Posted: 4th May 2003 23:01
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thanks for the help, but i am not wanting to change it into an image/sprite because that seriosly decreases the quality, i am now just loading it every frame, and hoping patch 4 is gonna speed it up some

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haggisman
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Posted: 4th May 2003 23:08
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when you say it decreases the quality are you using the ,1 flag on the end of the get image command?

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BOC4J
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Posted: 4th May 2003 23:33
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no, i am using 1024x768 images as backrounds and when loaded as a sprites they are a little blurred

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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 4th May 2003 23:49
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load as image not bitmap and add the '1' flag like haggisman says -load image"img.bmp",1,1.
Now when you make it a sprite it should look just fine.
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