Subject: Re: [stella] Revolutionary Horizontal position discovered! From: Manuel Polik <cybergoth@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:09:36 +0100 |
Hi Kirk! >and lowly apprentices trying not to blow ourselves >up with the potions again *lol* Apropos, reminds me that I should mix a "White Russian" for my girlfriend waiting in the bath. One moment please... :-) >I think I don't quite understand it. Ok if you never ran into such an algorithm, that's a normal reaction :-) >I keep meaning to write a minifaq about the typical >math operations...is it something you'd run in >the VBLANK, to put stuff right where it belongs >based on a variable holding the horizontal position? Phew... well. The routine would be probably be framed by something like: LDA #XXX ; Position between 0-159 LDX #$0X ; Offset for RESP0,X JSR TheMagicRoutine ; :-) STY HMP0,X ; Fine positioning value STA WSYNC STA HMOVE Actually, you can call this wherever you want, even midscreen. I think the routine presented could be even tweaked to reposition an object in a single scannline - without using any table! Ok, since the inner workings of the routine as such have been explained before, I'll just give you a pointer: http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199709/msg0 0006.html Here Robert Colbert explains the general inner working of horizontal positioning in deepest details. Now, while the principle is exactly the same, I'm sure you'll find that the routine I just posted uses half the bytes of the one Colbert discusses. It's way more elegant and can in some cases probably save a whole scannline for you. One thing that is left to test, is wether the new discovered routine is working precisely on the borders. With very small values, the RESP may come too early, with very high values the cycle limit per scannline might get exceeded... And another thing: Battlezone does the black HMOVE lines on the whole visible screen, I don't know how/if the algorithm works without that. I don't need this technique for Star Fire at all, because all my repositioning is way more complex and therefore table driven, but I thought others might never ever use the old ugly Air-Sea-Battle thing again :-) > How deep is your understand of Battlezone at this > point? I started partially reverse-engineering it, but my only intention is to analyze how the "crash" works. I'm almost done, maybe I'm posting the result tomorrow or on friday. Obviously I wanted to have that or a similar effect in Star Fire :-) Greetings, Manuel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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