A simple DirectDraw example
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I''m looking for a simple example of loading a bitmap "background" and putting another .bmp on top of it to move around with the keyboard. I have no problem blitting the background .bmp, but moving a sprite around is gumming things up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just make some variables that hold the sprites x,y positions, then increase/decrease those when the person hits the arrow keys. And make sure you re-blt the background every frame, otherwise you''ll have a million little sprites all over the screen. If you still can''t figure it out, say something and I''ll try to post some code for you. Good Luck.
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I guess I wasn''t clear...movement itself isn''t the problem. The problem is putting the character sprite on the screen (one .bmp on top of another). I could move it around easy enough after that. Thanks.
My bad. I don''t really understand what the problem is. All you have to do is blt the background the the back buffer, then blt the sprite on to the back buffer, then flip the back and front buffer. Are you having trouble making it transparent?
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams."
- Willy Wonka
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams."
- Willy Wonka
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I guess my problem is this:
I''ve been reading "Tricks of the..." and I''ve been re-writing all the code in the book and switching it around so I understand it etc. Anyway, I got through the example where I load a 24-bit .bmp to the screen with DirectDraw, and that makes sense. The next example, however, has 3 animated aliens which are drawn from a tile-map surface moving across the screen with timing and whatnot. It is a wee bit big a step from loading a .bmp file, so I want to break it down a bit.
Here is the code that is giving me trouble -> http://missoula.bigsky.net/law/bltsource.txt
I want to disect it so that it loads a bitmap background and a sprite to the back buffer, and then flips the back buffer to the primary buffer. Then I''ll deal with moving the sprite around the screen.
Bleh.
I''ve been reading "Tricks of the..." and I''ve been re-writing all the code in the book and switching it around so I understand it etc. Anyway, I got through the example where I load a 24-bit .bmp to the screen with DirectDraw, and that makes sense. The next example, however, has 3 animated aliens which are drawn from a tile-map surface moving across the screen with timing and whatnot. It is a wee bit big a step from loading a .bmp file, so I want to break it down a bit.
Here is the code that is giving me trouble -> http://missoula.bigsky.net/law/bltsource.txt
I want to disect it so that it loads a bitmap background and a sprite to the back buffer, and then flips the back buffer to the primary buffer. Then I''ll deal with moving the sprite around the screen.
Bleh.
BitBlt has the right idea. The easiest way to accomplish what you are trying to do is the following:
1. Load up both image files onto surfaces.
2. Draw your background image to the back buffer using Blt or whatever wrapper function you have.
3. After the background is drawn, draw your sprite.
4. Flip
That''s all there is to it. By drawing the sprite second, it is drawn on top of the background image. This should get you to the point you are looking for. If it is drawing the sprite that has got you confused, it is the same as drawing the background. If the sprite is only a small section of a larger bitmap, then you need to create a RECT structure with the location of your sprite on the image and pass the RECT to Blt. Hope this helps.
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1. Load up both image files onto surfaces.
2. Draw your background image to the back buffer using Blt or whatever wrapper function you have.
3. After the background is drawn, draw your sprite.
4. Flip
That''s all there is to it. By drawing the sprite second, it is drawn on top of the background image. This should get you to the point you are looking for. If it is drawing the sprite that has got you confused, it is the same as drawing the background. If the sprite is only a small section of a larger bitmap, then you need to create a RECT structure with the location of your sprite on the image and pass the RECT to Blt. Hope this helps.
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kevin@mayday-anime.com
http://dainteractive.mayday-anime.com
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Okay, so I''ve done that. I think my GameMain() function is money, but my GameInit() function is messed up. I can''t quite figure out what order to put these things in, and I also am having problems getting it in 32-bit color mode. Any suggestions?
Here are those two functions http://missoula.bigsky.net/law/DDRAW.txt
Here are those two functions http://missoula.bigsky.net/law/DDRAW.txt
32 Bit color mode is rather iffy on most cards. You may want to try going into 24 bit or even better, 16 bit. You may have more luck. As for your order, you need to make sure that you create your sprite on a OFFSCREEN PLAIN surface AFTER you have initialized DirectDraw and created your primary and secondary surfaces. From the looks of your code, you seem to be doing that.
Your Game Main seem fine, but I don't quite see what the problem is. Is your sprite not displaying correctly? Is your sprite displaying at all? Another thing I noticed, you are trying to start up in 32 Bit mode, yet you are creating and filling out a 256 color pallette (8 bit). Is this really what you are trying to do?
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kevin@mayday-anime.com
http://dainteractive.mayday-anime.com
Edited by - grasshopa55 on July 24, 2001 8:56:01 AM
Your Game Main seem fine, but I don't quite see what the problem is. Is your sprite not displaying correctly? Is your sprite displaying at all? Another thing I noticed, you are trying to start up in 32 Bit mode, yet you are creating and filling out a 256 color pallette (8 bit). Is this really what you are trying to do?
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kevin@mayday-anime.com
http://dainteractive.mayday-anime.com
Edited by - grasshopa55 on July 24, 2001 8:56:01 AM
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