Erm...there are a few ways. One way would be to scale the sprites dynamically every time they are redrawn. Scaling sprites is very slow and probably not the best approach. The easiest way would be to just make a bunch of different sprites for different depth ranges, and just display the one that corresponds to the current depth.

Hello,

How can you draw sprites with perspective (e.g., they are smaller if they are farther away and bigger if they are closer to you) ?

thanks!

--aeTIos

You can use greyscale, or size to get perspective, I guess.

I do not remember how, but one thing I must tell you is to not resize them on the fly. Resizing one 8x8 sprite takes 0.1 seconds, meaning resizing 10 8x8 sprites would reduce your frame rate to 1 frame per second. Before your level is loaded, you must pre-render each possible resizing of the sprites you need then store them into a ram area or arbitraty buffer, then recall the appropriate sprite when needed. This would be much faster, although before the level loads there would be a small loading delay.

true, but drawing prerendered stuff is MUCH faster.  And I should probably bold it, capitalize it, turn it blue and give it lobster claws...



Like I said, a bit faster it's a pain to pre-render, but it's better than going at 0.2 FPS

It depends on the kind of sprite, but in general, at this scale, it'd probably be best just to do it by hand.