wow nice to see you are back into calc stuff. Last time I went to MC it was for PPC if i remember. I tried it in PTI and you did a really good job so far and I noticed you had some sort of sprite masking as well. When I played it kinda remembered me old memories (like RL3 but faster). In xLIB this should be easier to make and faster. The syntax is a bit long but you get used to it after a while if you are good with Omnicalc.

I liked how you display a pic of the character who is talking at the bottom of the text box. Anyway I really hope it will be finished and from what I've seen I know lot of other ppl want this game finished for calcs

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QUOTE (xlibman @ 28 November 2005, 8:43)

I liked how you display a pic of the character who is talking at the bottom of the text box.

Yeah... There should be some progress, just as soon as the new version of xLIB is released. Of course, I could probably use the current version, but the new version sounds a lot better...

the new one has lines/rectangles so I guess you can start with the old one (I suggest the one in xLIB xlIB revolution 1.3 because it has run indicator off and multple keypresses getkey routine) then once you have the new one just change the line( commands

tr1p1ea should allow maxcoderz staff to access the new xLIB though

No problems with xLIB so far. The syntax is a lot longer and more complex, and'll take some time to memorize, but it shouldn't be too hard. Replacing all the uses of OmniCalc's sprite functions with corresponding xLIB sprite functions, however, is turning out to be slightly annoying, what with their rather different ways of displaying the sprites (OmniCalc's XOR update, XOR not update, OR update, OR not update, compared to xLIB's Overwrite, AND, OR, and XOR, and the seperate update or not update)

One thing, though... Can anyone tell me what the difference is between overwrite, AND, OR, and XOR? I can guess that overwrite just overwrites, but what about the others?

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QUOTE (dragon__lance @ 30 November 2005, 21:27)

-Or:draws the sprite there no matter wat, useful for masking -And:i'm not really sure, since i think the old xlib's and didn't work to well, but if u first and the sprite, itll give u a weird image, but then if u xor it, it just basicly the same as overwrite. hope i helped

Ranman: you can also use OR as the first layer in masking, the mask just has to be drawn with black for opaque and white for transparent, the opposite of an AND'ed mask, and the sprite must be drawn inverted. With AND masking, you just render your normal sprite over the mask with XOR logic. This is harder when you're making your sprites, but until now xLib's AND logic sprites didn't work properly.

Betasword: looks great! I'd love to see your character sprite animated, that would make it look even better, and that's very easy to do.