ooh i see, i was afraid you decided to make the game a 8xp program again, good to see it's just for variable and such stuff

You wont be able to seperate the grayscale active buffers from one another since they interlacing uses an optimisation that relies upon them being together in memory :S.  

Keep up the good work, guys!  

If durk gpp does it, Jim E RGP must do it, IIRC it was an enhanced version of durks  

QuoteBegin-tr1p1ea+20 Dec, 2007, 9:13

 With as much graphics data that is planned for this game, I would recommend using the the GS routines that save the most memory.

Transparency is not necessary for this game; and it would be completely unnoticeable by the end user.  

QuoteBegin-Ranman+20 Dec, 2007, 9:25

Actually, it is necessary. (albeit, only for one sprite) There's a lot of empty space bordering the main character's sprite set. When super-imposed on top of most floor tiles, it wouldn't look right without some kind of transparency.

And Spikeman, I like your idea, but since we're using a custom mapper, would it be compatible?

EDIT: My main concern is what ends up being most efficient. If we could write a custom routine for transparency that would require less memory than mapping, then I say we should go for it. Every little bit of free space helps.

This post has been edited by grendel on 20 Dec, 2007, 9:53

Ranman I think grendel means transparency as masking. At first i misinterpreted you though and thought you wanted him to do the game so the char sprite has an ugly white square around him when he walks on textured tiles, which doesn't look professional above 12x12. I think masking would be the solution, lot of games use it including Tr1p1ea's Desolate.

EDIT: THat goes for the playable character btw, not the NPCs, because for the NPC you could always store its sprite in the tileset and have it display as a tile instead of a sprite so you could edit the sprite border so the background is similar to the rest of the floor in the room

In games using 12x12 or 8x8 sprites it's not too bad because things are small and it's hard to notice the squares since in most of those the character almost takes the entire sprite slot