1. rle sprites in neil
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what does "run-length encoded" mean when
applied to sprites, as in Pete Eberlein's "neil" library?
2. Re: rle sprites in neil
Stephen Kodat asked:
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me what does "run-length encoded"
> mean when applied to sprites, as in Pete Eberlein's "neil" library?
Hey good question. I'll put it on the faq in progress...
short answer: it compresses opaque pixels into strips and remembers the
length and position of each... then each strip can be rendered with just
the equivalent of mem_copy. Fast because it doesn't have to check for
zero pixels each time.
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