#Purebasic sprite maximum size upgrade
#Purebasic sprite maximum size code
#Purebasic sprite maximum size free

#Purebasic sprite maximum size code

I would love to put a quick demo together, showing 8-way scrolling with a fully animated main character, but I can only code in Blitzīlitz Basic is good enough, it's quite a powerful tool from what I have heard and seen and in fact every Blitz game that I have seen on the Amiga have runned smoothly at 50fps. And even after looking at it for a while, the random observer would probably guess that the Amiga version has more. But the end result looks very nice, and if you didn't know it, at first look it's even hard to tell which one has more colors. Although this image took a while longer to convert, from an incredible 93 colors to 16 and some improvements in a few places. Additionally we could also check a third joy direction, DOWN, which would cause Megaman to release hold of the wall and drop down normally without jumping.Īnd I made some more stuff, here is a 16 color version of the level select screen, again side by side with the SNES version:Īgain we see how this rainbow-colored graphics style allows us to use our 16 color palette to it's maximum potential. Pressing UP will cause Megaman to jump out from the wall at normal speed and pressing LEFT or RIGHT will cause the jump to happen at dash speed.

In this mode doing nothing will cause Megaman to slide down, and only two joystick directions are checked, UP and either LEFT or RIGHT depending on the direction of the wall, if wall is on the right we check LEFT and vice versa. One solution might be this: When player jumps into a wall, Megaman clings to it, and at this point the game controls enter a 'wall mode'. And pressing the Jump Button and the Dash Button at the same time causes Megaman to jump out of the wall at 'dash speed'.īut on the Amiga single button Joystick I think this all can still be done. Pressing the Jump Button while on the wall causes Megaman to jump out of the wall at normal speed. If player releases the control pad to neutral position, Megaman releases his hold from the wall and drops down. As long as player presses to the direction of the wall, Megaman stays on the wall and slides down. On the SNES it works like this: when player jumps into a wall, Megaman clings to it and starts to slide downwards. And although I don't claim to be on the level of the Capcom artists, surely I can do something if the need arises.Īlso I thought about the wall jumping / wall sliding controls, and how they would work on a single button joystick. You can see some Turrican/Megaman inspired pixel stuff that I have made here. But I can draw sprites in this style, and could surely draw the missing animation frames. Although some frames for Zero would need to be hand drawn, because he only partially exists in Megaman X. But maybe if Megaman itself would be composed out of multiple hardware sprites, then this might be used as a partial solution.īut still, having Zero as a playable character would be super cool too, and this also is just a matter of disk space. And I just realized that it wouldn't actually consume memory, but rather disk space, to have all those different versions of the Megaman sprite in the disk. So if we would use 3 sprites for the normal bullets, that would leave us 5 sprites for Megaman, because the Amiga had 8 hardware sprites right?Īnd I also agree on the upgradable armor feature, it would be a shame to leave it out. Indeed, the Megaman character doesn't have so many colors and it's quite small, maybe possible to make with a sprite or two? I know sprites have some limitations on size though, but maybe it's possible. *Like I mentioned, my coding skills on the Amiga start and stop with Blitz, hence the references to stuff I know can be done in that language. However, if tiles and sprite were made available then, maybe, folk would be motivated to put something together. I would love to put a quick demo together, showing 8-way scrolling with a fully animated main character, but I can only code in Blitz (to a barely passable degree) and really ought to be concentrating on finishing my other game project.

#Purebasic sprite maximum size upgrade

It would be better to reduce the anim frames for the main sprite by 1 in each direction than skip the armour upgrade bit (imho). It's a feature that really adds to the game. You can even create 'safe colours'* to make collision detection only happen for certain colours, so you can still have some form of background without resorting to dual playfield techniques. Using a sprite (as opposed to a bob) for the main character definitely speeds things up.

#Purebasic sprite maximum size free

When you load the level you can free the current screen/slice* along with the palette and remake a newer, lower-colour screen/slice and palette. The title screen doesn't need to be limited to 16 colours if you don't want it to be.