Wait didn't you make a smoothscrolling parallax scrolling mapper for your ball game? o.O

Yeah but that isn't a real tilemapper. It's like two rows of tiles displayed at specific locations, not a full grid-based tilemapper.

Oh btw, I forgot to specify something, the thing Supersonic Ball to draw stuff that looks like a tilemap draws 65 tiles per frame.

1) The background (Parralax scrolling) is made of 13 tiles, which are copied on the rest of the screen with Copy() to save a considerable amount of time.
2) The ceiling, made of 26 tiles, 13 of which are always plain black, drawn on the back buffer, for collision detection.
3) The floor (same way)

Regular 8x8 monochrome seems to work pretty fast for me. I get about 60 fps scrolling for the most part (about 75 for aligned vertical scrolling). The screen is updated after every arrow key has been checked and the buffer image has been scrolled for each pressed key.

The screenshot will probably appear to have more blocky movement and/or move slower, but the above statistics are correct.

One thing I dislike with the calc data is that when not aligned, it takes much longer to display than when aligned, so horizontal scrolling games seems a bit slower than if they just scroll vertically.

If you want it to be the same, you can use ClrDraw:Pt-On() instead of Pt-Off().

That looks great Runer.  Can you post the source?  It's sure fast.

That looks really sweet Runer

Z, didn't you have a smoothscrolling engine a long time ago with an early Axe version?

Could you clarify what you mean? Do you mean Pt-On doesn't slow down when not aligned?

Pt-On has the same speed because it does not speed up if it is aligned.

Z, didn't you have a smoothscrolling engine a long time ago with an early Axe version?

http://ourl.ca/4161/79940

Quote from: ztrumpet on November 07, 2010, 06:06:30 pm

Pt-On has the same speed because it does not speed up if it is aligned.

Hmm tests would say otherwise, i got 60FPS with PtOn(0,0) 96 times, and 22 FPS with PtOn(7,7) 96 times

Okay, looks like I'm wrong.  Sorry.
(I think I must be remembering from a previous version of Axe or something.  )

My program only draws tiles as they scroll onto the screen. That means it's drawing at most 13 8x8 tiles per frame. This means you couldn't have animated ground tiles, but it would work great for static ground tiles. It could also be easily extended to working with grayscale tilemaps.

can you post the source? great job on the speed