1. Exotica Questions.
I've come across a few problems with exotica, can anyone help?
When i try to change the video mode during the main loop, it won't let me
and the program stops. is it not possible to do this? It would be very
useful!
Also I was wondering about loading bitmaps, Is it safe to use any number for
the bitmap_id, say, mouse pointers start at 1, tiles start at 20, sprites
start at 500. Or will that waste memory if I don't use some of the id's?
And why can't I draw images off the edges of the screen? I thought it was
suposed to clip them??
I think that's about all.
Thanks,
Mark.
2. Re: Exotica Questions.
Liquid-Nitrogen Software wrote:
> When i try to change the video mode during the main loop, it won't let me
> and the program stops. is it not possible to do this? It would be very
> useful!
I'm currently trying to work on this problem. I'm working on this
together
with the inclusion of a windows mode for Exotica applications to
run in instead just of the fullscreen mode.
> Also I was wondering about loading bitmaps, Is it safe to use any number for
> the bitmap_id, say, mouse pointers start at 1, tiles start at 20, sprites
> start at 500. Or will that waste memory if I don't use some of the id's?
Yes, you can do that. They just have to be a different number. They get
stored in a linked list so it wont waste memory for higher values like
that. So as an example, if you assigned mouse pointers to id 1-3,
tiles to id 20-100 and sprites to id 500-600, the linked list will only
have 183 entries.
> And why can't I draw images off the edges of the screen? I thought it was
> suposed to clip them??
You caught me there! :) I just need to fix that up for the next
release...
Sorry about that... doh...
- Todd Riggins
