Sprites, and good ways to implement them.

MrLeap · 2005-06-11T10:12:00

i'm making a tile based (thanks david :P) over head RPG, and as such utilizing sprites is a goal of mine. What would be a good way to do it? The idea for animated sprites that *I* had was to just have a series of conditions that switch textures over a polygon. Psuedo code: while (keys[VK_W]) { loop: texture = walking1.bmp wait 0.3 seconds texture = walking2.bmp } that sort of thing. My way seems REALLY nasty though, so I would assume that the guru's of openGL have devised a much more clever way of doing this, and maybe even wrote a tutorial about it :) If no easier way is known. Can someone point me in the direction of a.. function that acts as a wait? Or even a variable that stores the system clock, so I could do something like.. a = systemclock do until a = a + 0.3 type of things. EDIT: Oh I almost forgot! I'd like figure out how I could make a part of a texture transparent. I think it's called "blitting" or something. Nehe's tutorial just seemed to make an entire texture transparent. a sprite wouldn't be very good if it was just a character within a white box ;)

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Started by MrLeap June 08, 2005 04:18 PM

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June 11, 2005 10:12 AM

Yeah, I just feel kind of guilty. I dont want to give the impression of a certain other individual on the forum ;)

OH YEAH! It worked! Thank you all so much :DDDD

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