I think I'm going to stick to my original thing of having only 16 different tiles per map, so it shouldn't be too bad a problem.

So far I've figured there are two ways to do this:
-Run a text/word macro to rearrange the data on the computer the way I want (I don't know how to do this; someone teach me? haha. This will take up more data space but the engine will be faster and smaller and easier to write)
-Create an routine that can convert the data into the form I want on a map load/tile-set change. This might be the better option, I just have to write it first lol.

Check out the source to SandLand and Stick Ninja (and probably Tag as well); SandLand has a good example of pixel based collision and Stick Ninja is more tile based.

Basically what you want to do is run a For() loop for the length of the current velocity, checking at each point for a collision. I always run the For() loop in pixels even though my engine might be inflated to save on speed. Then if a collision is found, the coordinate is adjusted slightly to rest exactly on the pixel or tile (since it's relatively inaccurate collision testing), and if not then the original inflated velocity is added to the coordinate.

So as some people might have noticed, I finally got my own computer. it's a mixed blessing that it's old (runs win xp); it's a little slow, but that means that I can have access to all sorts of x86 programs that I didn't before (and i have admin rights which i dind't have on the fam comp) So what all of this means is:

-Faster coding/debugging due to access to Tokens and Wabbit
-Faster data asset creation due to access to things like Calc GS

And in general, motivation for me to continue this project.


Side note: I think I'm going to switch to 4 lvl gray. The only thing that prevented me from doing so before was that all the tile data had to be masked because I designed the mapping engine kinda strange. However, I'm also unsure if any computer map/tile programs have support for 12x12 4lvl gray...

I felt it, sitting on my lifeguard stand in joisey

so i'm finally getting my own computer (yay) and it's a pretty ancient one that runs xp (lol)

my question to you guys is, what's the best free virus protection software out there? and is it even needed? and don't tell me to run linux lol (although i am tempted to try it out)

thanks

Haha thanks guys. It was pretty epic (45 miles of hiking over 7 days) and now I'm attempting to sort out my life that has gone pretty haywire since I've left lol

Hey, selectcoaxial, let me teach you about a cool feature Axe has called inData(). It's basically like BASIC's instring()...We can use it to search for K in a list of key values, then add its position in the list -1 to N*10; if K=34, the inData piece will return 2 for example then minus 1. Here's the modified code

Lbl 001
getKey->K

ReturnIf K=15

If K            //if K is not 0
N*10+inData(K,Data(33,34,26,18,35,27,19,36,28,20,0))-1->N   
End

If N<10
Output(1,1,N>Dec)
Else
Return
End
Goto 001

Also, to answer your other question, the main buffer is in L6, and it displays regular black/white gfx. The back buffer is in L3, and isnt displayed unless you use a variant of DispGraph^r, in which case it will display grayscale