Good evening, I am designing an RPG and attempting to teach myself all the relevant skills involved in producing the game.
Before you all laugh, I am not attempting to complete the game as a one man army, I just want to learn a decent amount of art and design so that when I hire an artist, I can more accurately describe what I want in some of their own language.
And so that when I hire a programmer, I can more accurately describe what I want in some of their own language. Besides, the more I learn, the more it all affects my concept (as in, what is realistic, what is workable, what is standard, and so on). Basically I want to be the best team leader I can by having at least some knowledge of all the relevant areas.
Also I just love learning stuff.
Anyway, this is the code I have so far, using Visual C++ 2010 with SDL.
#pragma comment(lib, "SDL.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "SDLmain.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "SDL_TTF.lib")
#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_image.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <stack>
#include <string>
#include "SDL_TTF.h"
#include "Defines.h"
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
const int SCREEN_WIDTH = 644;
const int SCREEN_HEIGHT = 400;
const int SCREEN_BPP = 32;
SDL_Surface *logo = NULL;
SDL_Surface *border = NULL;
SDL_Surface *screen = NULL;
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING);
SDL_WM_SetCaption("Necromancer", NULL);
screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_BPP, SDL_SWSURFACE);
border = IMG_Load("Graphics/Title/Border.png");
logo = IMG_Load("Graphics/Title/Logo.png");
SDL_BlitSurface(logo,NULL,screen,NULL);
SDL_BlitSurface(border,NULL,screen,NULL);
SDL_Flip(screen);
SDL_Delay( 5000 );
SDL_FreeSurface(logo);
SDL_FreeSurface(border);
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}
I have copied most of this stuff from websites, so most of it I genuinely have no idea what it does. But after hours of furious tweaking, it creates a screen in the size I want and displays two images I want for 5 seconds. A pretty big win for someone fumbling along.
My question is, where do I insert code to tell the program to 'fade in' the logo, then fade it out again (over a total period of 3 seconds), and what what would that code look like?
Then I would like it to fade in and fade in a second image over 5 seconds, what would that code look like?
Thank you for your time and putting up with my awkward starting point.
Kind regards,
Dan