I am wanting to use XLIB to make nice games, and I've figured out enough how to make sprites and tilemaps appear on the screen, but when it comes to making things move on the screen, my methods end up being really really slow (even the XLIB mouse I tried to make came out REALLY slow).
How can I speed things up a little bit?  And even better is ther e a better tuturial on XLIB than the one that comes with the app?  The commands were a bit cryptic and I don't know how many times I crashed trying to figure how where things go when I first tried it...

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QUOTE (Spellshaper @ Jul 4 2006, 04:19 AM)

3. No extra tut that I know of. Hm, we could make one...

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QUOTE (xlibman @ Jul 4 2006, 06:52 AM)

Wasnt tifreak8x going to write a xlib tutorial?

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ec1 PROGRAM:ZMOUSE real(9,1,253 real(9,0,253 real(0,0 real(12,0,0,0,0,7,0 real(12,0,1,1,5,5,0 real(12,0,0,7,5,5,1 real(9,1,252 real(9,0,252 real(3,253,1 real(9,1,253 {H,V\->\\L\MTP real(1,H,V,1,8,252,0,0,3,0,1 Repeat K=21   Logged kalan_vod LV11 Super Veteran (Next: 3000) Posts: 2715 Rating: +10/-0 [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #7 on: July 04, 2006, 06:37:00 am » c1--> CODE ec1 PROGRAM:ZMOUSE real(9,1,253 Logged Demon Guest [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #8 on: July 04, 2006, 08:01:00 am » QUOTE real(9,0,253 Logged Spellshaper LV10 31337 u53r (Next: 2000) Posts: 1690 Rating: +0/-0 This is me. Or maybe not. [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #9 on: July 04, 2006, 08:05:00 am » Isn't it so that xLib won't overwrite already existing Pics? Try adding c1--> CODE ec1real(9,1,253c2 ec2 before saving the Screen to Pic 255. Logged kalan_vod LV11 Super Veteran (Next: 3000) Posts: 2715 Rating: +10/-0 [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #10 on: July 04, 2006, 09:42:00 am » c1--> CODE ec1For(I,1,0,-1 real(1,H,Ans,1,8,252,0,0,3,0,I Endc2 ec2 Since you will be using a list, you will need to change Ans back to V. Logged threefingeredguy Guest [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #11 on: July 06, 2006, 08:51:00 am » In my professional experience, an rpg made in xLIB can be as fast as an rpg made using ASM (with getcsc for the keydetection). It's also easier to calculate the stats. Logged Dragon__lance Guest [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #12 on: July 06, 2006, 09:59:00 am » very tru,but with not as much features, in ASM you can fit in so much more at a decent speed, *points to Spencer's Zelda. One thing about the Mouse program, one way to make it seem faster is to increment (x,y) by more than 1. And i have a question, is it faster to include the key detection within the main loop, or as a seperate loop as Kalan__vod coded? Logged Spellshaper LV10 31337 u53r (Next: 2000) Posts: 1690 Rating: +0/-0 This is me. Or maybe not. [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #13 on: July 06, 2006, 11:09:00 am » Dunno, I'd say a seperate loop inside the main loop is faster. Why? When you put it directly into the main loop, it goes through the whole loop every time, thus eating up some time. A seperate loop however is likely to be smaller and is thus repeated faster, making key detection overall faster. Just a theory though Logged kalan_vod LV11 Super Veteran (Next: 3000) Posts: 2715 Rating: +10/-0 [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB? « Reply #14 on: July 07, 2006, 09:28:00 am » It detects the key faster if you have a loop for the getkey function, as apposed to going through the whole loop for the game and only hitting the getkey once. If you have a small game loop, then you may not need a getkey loop but I would recommend it if it is not a live/action type game. Logged Print Pages: [1] 2   Go Up « previous next » Omnimaga » Forum » Calculator Community » TI Calculators » TI-BASIC » [83+ xLIB] Faster XLIB?   SMF 2.0.15 | SMF © 2017, Simple Machines Dream Portal 1.1 © 2009–2024 Dream Portal Team XHTML RSS WAP2 Server load over the past 5, 10 and 15 minutes respectively: 0.20751953125, 0.2041015625, 0.14794921875 Page created in 0.091 seconds with 64 queries.