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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1080 on: November 26, 2011, 12:58:25 pm »
Which of these is faster?
Code: [Select]
:C>0+C->C
or
Code: [Select]
:If C>0
:C++
:End
Basically it comes down to an If statement, versus an expression evaluated each time.
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1081 on: November 26, 2011, 01:44:54 pm »


I suspect that you don't really need to test if it's positive, in which case !if c would be the fastest way. Otherwise, the second one is fastest.



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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1082 on: November 26, 2011, 03:48:08 pm »
Hey guys. How do I make a white 4x8 sprite in Axe? So that if I display it on a black background(pt-off) it doesn't draw a white 8x8?
I heard something of a masked sprite, but I don't know what that is.
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1083 on: November 26, 2011, 03:49:36 pm »
So you'll want to create a greyscale sprite like this:

Black is where you want black
light grey is where you want white
dark grey is where you want grey
white is where you want transparency

and just Pt-Mask (under plot for some reason) with the usual arguments.
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1084 on: November 26, 2011, 05:06:23 pm »
Quote from: mrmprog on November 26, 2011, 12:58:25 pm
Which of these is faster?
Code: [Select]
:C>0+C->C
or
Code: [Select]
:If C>0
:C++
:End
Basically it comes down to an If statement, versus an expression evaluated each time.

If you are using negative numbers, use the >> operation.  If you just use >, every number except 0 will execute the code
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1085 on: November 26, 2011, 05:29:24 pm »
Is there a faster way to xor two buffers together than with a For() loop?
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1086 on: November 26, 2011, 05:55:17 pm »
Is there a way to draw a sprite directly to the screen?
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1087 on: November 26, 2011, 06:37:33 pm »
Quote from: Darl181 on November 26, 2011, 05:29:24 pm
Is there a faster way to xor two buffers together than with a For() loop?
No I don't believe so

Quote from: mrmprog on November 26, 2011, 05:55:17 pm
Is there a way to draw a sprite directly to the screen?
Not in Axe at any rate.  One could write an axiom for it maybe, why do you want to draw a sprite to the screen only?
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1088 on: November 26, 2011, 07:13:00 pm »
So I don't have to worry about platforms and such being erased. On the same idea, how do I draw mono "transparent" sprites?
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1089 on: November 27, 2011, 12:45:13 am »
Quote from: mrmprog on November 26, 2011, 07:13:00 pm
So I don't have to worry about platforms and such being erased. On the same idea, how do I draw mono "transparent" sprites?
I believe the command you're looking for is Pt-Mask()r
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1090 on: November 27, 2011, 05:41:48 am »
Quote from: leafiness0 on November 26, 2011, 03:49:36 pm
So you'll want to create a greyscale sprite like this:

Black is where you want black
light grey is where you want white
dark grey is where you want grey
white is where you want transparency

and just Pt-Mask (under plot for some reason) with the usual arguments.
Thanks. So I must just use it like this? :
pt-mask(x,y,pic1)r(or no r?)
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1091 on: November 27, 2011, 11:31:24 am »
I'm pretty sure it's like that, just have the second line of hex under/part of the first one.

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Ok, I was optimizing last night and wrote down a bunch of Q's as I went.

Do the ?/?? conditionals save space in the executable in relation to conventional If loops?  How about speed?

Can they be nested?  like B?(A++5?-1→A),→A works, nvm that

Which is faster: If (commonly true) / If (sparsely true) ?

So it's optimized to put the constants at the end...what if it's like L2+2?  Would a different order influence anything?
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1092 on: November 27, 2011, 05:56:58 pm »
AH!!!!!
so, swords is almost done, and the executable is 17000 bytes. I just tried compiling it into an app, but I got an Err: Memory D:
is there any way to get around this?
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1093 on: November 27, 2011, 06:01:41 pm »
One-page app capacity (minus the header and signature) is 16160 bytes. I guess you could either do some hardcore optimization or put some data in an external appvar.
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Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #1094 on: November 27, 2011, 06:03:06 pm »
Quote from: calc84maniac on November 27, 2011, 06:01:41 pm
One-page app capacity (minus the header and signature) is 16160 bytes. I guess you could either do some hardcore optimization or put some data in an external appvar.
ok then, I'll do that. :)
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