One sprite infront of another

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phil

Ahem! well sorry for having to ask this cos i think im missing the glaringly obvious but:-

how do you specify which one of two sprites will be drawn on top of the other when sprites overlap in a 2d game?

LOADSPRITE "man.bmp", 0   
LOADSPRITE "tree.bmp", 1      


SPRITE 0, 100, 100
SPRITE 1, 100, 100

Sometimes i want the man infront of the tree or vice versa.
Its amazing how many example games i`ve looked through that don`t seem to add a "Z" value or something?????
 Thanx in advance, sorry for the dumb question.

Kosta

Hi Phil,

the sprites will be drawn in the order you have written in your script. So if you want to draw a tree in front of all other sprites you have to draw/code the tree last.

for example

...
sprite 0,100,100   # background sprite
sprite 2,100,100   # main sprite
sprite 1,100,100   # tree in front
...

-> sprite 0 is behind sprite 2 and 1. sprite 2 is behind sprite 1. sprite 1 is on top.
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phil

Thanks for the quick reply Kosta, I've been doing my best like this so far but i cant believe that there is no way to bump a sprite to the front or the middle when its required, I mean it just makes programming something even harder if you have to try n paste bits of code in all over the shop so your sprites are on the correct leyer.

 Anyone else got any ideas or is this just the way it is?

Kitty Hello

Sprites are not real sprites. The name was chosen badly back then. It's more just "blit" or "image". The time you write the SPRITE command, it gets drawn to the back buffer with no idea of layers or whatever.

phil

I see, thanks for the info people. I`ll just have to get the hang of it.

bigsofty

Create an array that holds all your sprites info (num, x, y, including a Z co-ordinate), then iterate (once you've done all your sprite movement) this array drawing all the sprites of a '0' Z co-ordinate 1st, '1' 2nd, etc... you just need to make your own Z co-ord sprite print routine.
Cheers,

Ian.

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phil

This looks like the stuff Big Softy, but alas im very new to glbasic, in fact i`m new to all programming, although i`ve made a fair bit of stuff with click team products and some stuff in fenix (but i gave up using fenix cos it was too buggy on the gp2x) so i`ll try and write this idea in to what i`m doing but getting it to work without some kind of example to go off may be above me at this time.
Thanks for helping though, at least i know there is a way.