Its actually not that big. It's only about 16 or so lines, and it is faster. I'll post a screenie soon comparing both methods

How big is the new code?  I just calculated it and it looks like ~336 bytes.  If that's too large, you could use two loops.  One to loop through the first layer, and the other to loop through the second layer.  This would still cut out the extra seven StorePics and RecallPics and be much smaller.

much faster! hmm, I just noticed that your character slows down a lot when he is in the air...

That's because my comp makes Wabbitemu run slow sometimes, and it just appears that way. It's still the same speed as it's always been for moving.

Quote from: trevmeister66 on May 09, 2009, 09:48:16 pm

Its actually not that big. It's only about 16 or so lines, and it is faster. I'll post a screenie soon comparing both methods

How big is the new code?  I just calculated it and it looks like ~336 bytes.  If that's too large, you could use two loops.  One to loop through the first layer, and the other to loop through the second layer.  This would still cut out the extra seven StorePics and RecallPics and be much smaller.

I just tried the For( loop, and it was a tad slower, and since size isn't a problem for me (I store all my map data, which is split in half, in the archive and use Iambians XCOPY to copy whichever half im in into RAM), I'm gonna stick with the hard coded idea.

The For( loop is slower because you have to calculate an equation (8A-8 or whatever) every time through, whereas when it's hard coded, the numbers are preset, so it just doesn't do any work except display the text. It's not much slower, but I could tell it was.

The For( loop is slower because you have to calculate an equation (8A-8 or whatever) every time through,

You're neglecting the overhead of running the For( loop itself:  it has to increment the index variable and the interpreter is searching for an End statement as well.

[edit] This topic is growing pretty fast.  Every time I look there's like two or more posts.

Quote from: trevmeister66 on May 09, 2009, 10:14:50 pm

The For( loop is slower because you have to calculate an equation (8A-8 or whatever) every time through,

You're neglecting the overhead of running the For( loop itself:  it has to increment the index variable and the interpreter is searching for an End statement as well.

[edit] This topic is growing pretty fast.  Every time I look there's like two or more posts.

Heh yeah it is a pretty hot topic right now.

lol, I think the For( loop looks a bit more aesthetically appealing. then the way I did, and it's not that much faster

are you going to make this little test project you've done into a full blown game?

Yeah it is kind of fun making a game like this. Designing the maps is fun but also extremely boring. But if you do make it into a game, I'd like to play it; I've always been interested in these kind of games for the calc, but I never could find many on ticalc.

Yeah that's a good idea, especially if you're going to make it into just an engine, then you could release both together.