Hello Everyone, some of you have made games in Axe and Asm that use images, sprites, maps, etc.

However, I don't program those. I program TI Basic. Is there anyway to make a sprite in the computer and convert it to TI Basic code, so, make images in TI BASIC?

Thanks much, David

something i made could be of help. though it's still rather slow.

Ya, I think everyone kinda covered it. The main way probably is to just use the picture variables though, as JosJuice said, they are 767 bytes each and you can't do a whole lot with them unless you constantly store and restore to them since they take up the "whole" screen (I said "whole" because the screen is technically 96*64 pixels but since it's TI-BASIC it only uses the 95*63 pixels). The other way of doing pictures/images/sprites is to hard code or "hard code" them in using the drawing commands (Line(, Pxl-On(, Pt-Off(, etc.). Then there are ways of making sprites by using Text Sprites, which is clever way of using the Text( command, and there are also Dual Layers too, which is using both the Text( and picture variables cleverly to achieve good graphics (there are topics on both of these around Omnimaga). Then, technically, as nemo said you can use hexadecimal code to make sprites and such but in TI-BASIC, at least Pure TI-BASIC, it is quite slow. I have created a sprite editor that lets you create a sprite/image and then export it into hexadecimal code and nemo has that program that converts it back. Finally, if you're experienced enough to use Hybrid TI-BASIC, you can get much faster sprites and such using those and all, though I don't know much about those so I can't help much. Hope this helps.

Oh ya, I forgot about those. I've never used them nor ever, knowingly, seen them really used so that's why I forgot.

It depends on what your looking for.  If you want to do maps, dual layer (Serenity style or not) is a great way to go.
Otherwise, if your trying to draw an actual pictures, lines are the only way to go (unless, of course you want to use a picture file)

Quote from: meishe91 on October 31, 2010, 09:17:40 pm

Oh ya, I forgot about those. I've never used them nor ever, knowingly, seen them really used so that's why I forgot.

*cough* http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/430/43045.html *cough*

I recommend using horizontal text sprites for beginning graphics.  They're easy to use and don't take a lot of time to display if you only need to update one or two.

Well they are the square plot token but are they actually Plot Sprites?

Oh, well I did not know that My apologies.

Didn't know about those plot graphics... pretty cool. Scout... if you want graphics and stuff like that you should use AXE or ASM. I know you do so... I know you want to have a good time during physics class... there are other things