Hello all,


I have not put any extensive research into this question but I was wondering if anyone who has successfully made or used sprites in basic could tell me how they did it / what or what not to do so I can save some time (emotional energy)? (That’s what forums are for, right?)

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I am in the process of making a 3D graphing utility in ICE C for the TI-84 CE. It can do limited graphing, but at least it displays something that makes some sense. Please review my code to make comments, suggestions, and anything else you might want to say as it nears completion (Please keep in mind that this is one of my first real projects in ICE). Thanks! (also please tell me how to take a screenshot of an ice program while it is running)

EDIT: I hope someday to have it graph the complex plane


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[i]GRAPH3D


0->XD
0->YD


50->X
50->Y
50->Z


173->CONSTC


Begin)
SetDraw(1)


FillScreen(255)
Blit(1)
Call EVAL
FillScreen(255)
Call BOUTLINE
Call FOUTLINE
Call GRAPH
Call FOUTLINE
Blit(1)
Repeat getKey(15)
End
det(1)
Return


Lbl EVAL
Alloc(100*100*3)->A
For(Z,0,99)
FillScreen(255)
PrintStringXY("Calculating...",5,5)
SetTextXY(5,15)
PrintUInt(Z,3)
PrintString(" percent")
Blit(1)
For(X,0,99)

X-50->X
[i](sin(X*256/100)*25/256)+(cos(Z*256/100)*25/256)+50->{A+(X+(Z*100))*3}
16777216-(16777216-(X*X)/25)+50-(Z*Z/32)->{A+(X+50+(Z*100))*3}
[i](X*X/25+50)-Z/4
[i]->{A+(X+50+(Z*100))*3}
X+50->X

End
End
Return


Lbl FOUTLINE
SetColor(0)
Line(160,220,160+(CONSTC/2),220-50)
Line(160,120,160+(CONSTC/2),120-50)
Line(160,220,160-(CONSTC/2),220-50)
Line(160,120,160-(CONSTC/2),120-50)
Line(160-(CONSTC/2),120-50,160-(CONSTC/2),120+50
Line(160+(CONSTC/2),120-50,160+(CONSTC/2),120+50
Line(160,120,160,120+100)
Line(160,20,160+(CONSTC/2),20+50)
Line(160,20,160-(CONSTC/2),20+50)


Return


Lbl BOUTLINE
Line(160,20,160,220)
Line(160-(CONSTC/2),20+50,160+(CONSTC/2),220-50)
Line(160-(CONSTC/2),220-50,160+(CONSTC/2),20+50)
Return


Lbl GRAPH
For(Z,0,99)
For(X,0,99)
{A+(X+(Z*100))*3}->YA
If (YA<150)

If X<100
{A+(X+1+(Z*100))*3}->YB
Else
YA->YB
End
If Z<100
{A+(X+((Z+1)*100))*3}->YC
Else
YA->YC
End
SetColor((Z*8/100)+144)
If not(XD) and not(YD)
SetPixel((160-(CONSTC/2)+(CONSTC/2*X/100)+(CONSTC/2*Z/100)),(220-50-YA-(50*X/100)+(50*Z/100)))
End
If XD
Line((160-(CONSTC/2)+(CONSTC/2*X/100)+(CONSTC/2*Z/100)),(220-50-YA-(50*X/100)+(50*Z/100)),(160-(CONSTC/2)+(CONSTC/2*(X+1)/100)+(CONSTC/2*Z/100)),(220-50-YB-(50*(X+1)/100)+(50*Z/100)))
End
If YD
Line((160-(CONSTC/2)+(CONSTC/2*X/100)+(CONSTC/2*Z/100)),(220-50-YA-(50*X/100)+(50*Z/100)),(160-(CONSTC/2)+(CONSTC/2*X/100)+(CONSTC/2*(Z+1)/100)),(220-50-YC-(50*X/100)+(50*(Z+1)/100)))
End
End
End
Blit(1)
If getKey(15)
Return
End
End
Return


Hey, just wondering, is there any particular reason why there is no ICE thread/board? Has just nobody gotten around to it, or is it just more of a Cemetech thing?

So this is an extension of my question on that topic in Major Community Projects/The Axe Parser Project, but I don't want to commandeer that topic any more so here's a new one.
So I am having trouble storing/retrieving weapon stats for the RPG (yay) I'm making. Here is my code:
1->Pic12011:3:0:0:0:0:0:0
1:4:0:0:0:0:0:0
1:6:0:0:0:0:0:0
1:6:0:0:0:0:0:0
1:8:0:0:0:0:0:0
(r1-1*8)+Pic12011->r2
(r1-1*8+1)+Pic12011->r3
(r1-1*8+2)+Pic12011->r4
(r1-1*8+3)+Pic12011->r5
This should (or at least I want it to) retrieve the first four values of each row in my data (the row dependant upon r1), but it never seems to work. I think the problem is that it is evaluating the parentheses and adding it to the value of Pic12011, but I don't know how to fix this. Please help!

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Have fun!

So I work in Axe, obviously (otherwise I would have put this in basic or some other topic), and I want to make large games. The main limitation I run into most of the time is that I don't seem to have enough non-final -- or for lack of a better word, dynamic -- variables. Does anybody have any ideas/solutions to this problem? I already know about A-Z, theta, and r₁-r₆, but are there any that I don't know of? Nobody else seems to have this problem.