Screen-Smash - Test My Game!!!

[LuX]

suite yourself, I would have gone with the sprite idea to draw it to the cursor.

[thetoddfather]

Is there a way I could use the embedded cursor resource images for that method?

[Asimov]

Hi Todfather,

I experienced lag when I made my sprite in my Missile command game, but I solved it. The lag isn't in the sending to the screen, it is the way it reads the cursor position. The following code that I wrote solves this.

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RECT r;
GetWindowRect( hWnd, &r);
r.right=r.right-5;
r.left= r.left+5;;
r.bottom = r.bottom-100;
ClipCursor( &r );

POINT bn;
GetCursorPos(&bn);
crosshair.Sprite((bn.x-r.left)-27,  (bn.y - r.top)-54,5,2000,&gfx, timetest);

It reads the cursor position in a different way. There is a lot more to this, as you have to pass the window to the Compose frame.

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void Game::ComposeFrame(float timeDelta, HWND hWnd)

[thetoddfather]

Ok, I'll try to go that route then. Saves me trying to figure out directx's cursor bull.

So, with missle command all your images are through your resource file? Can you help me now with getting them into the game from their current resource state? The syntax for these things is just not clicking for me.

They are loaded into the .res as 256x256 32 bit cursors. Is there a way I can pull those into a sprite or image I can use for my cursors as you have in misslecommand?? Or am I going to have to redo the .res file and make them bitmaps?

Is there a way I can use this:

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LoadImage(hInst,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_M4B_CURSOR),IMAGE_CURSOR ,256,256,LR_CREATEDIBSECTION);

Basically, how did you pull your resource images and then assign them to sprites and such?

Would help me a ton to get past this issue. Thanks!

[Asimov]

Hi Todfather,

I didn't start by loading from a resource. My original routine I loaded straight from a file. You have to get that to work before thinking about resources. I can post some code later, which I meant to do but I have been caught up with learning Vray the last couple of days.

You know how to load an image already. My sprite routine just loads a row of images as one image.
Then it uses a counter. Say I have a 20 frame animation all in one animation strip. All I have to do to advance to the next frame is advance the pointer to the different images.

In the meantime here is my routine for playing my sprite animation

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bool SpriteLoader::Sprite(double x,double y, float Frametime,D3DGraphics* gfx)
{
		DrawSprite((int)x,(int)y,gfx);

		if (Time==0)
		{
			endtime= clock()+Frametime;
			Time=1;
		}
		
		if (clock()>=endtime) {
			Frame=Frame+1;
			Time=0;
		} 

		if (Frame==NumberOfFrames) {
			Frame=0;
			return false;
		} // This starts the animation again
		return true;
}

I setup my face with this

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SpriteLoader Turret;

Then I load my face

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Turret.LoadSprite(L"data//crosshair,41,63,20,861);

41 is the sprite width. 63 is the sprite hieght. There are 20 frames and the whole image is 861 wide.

Or from resource with this

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Turret.LoadSpriteRes(IDR_TURRET,41,63,20,861);

I have overload functions in my class so I can either load from resource or from a file.

First of all you already know how to load an image from a file, so all you have to do is to work out how to take an image of more than one frame and load through it.

I will post my full code for you tomorrow, but I have to take out my encoding algorithm first.

[thetoddfather]

OK! After MUCH toil, I think we're almost there.

Have a look at 0.76 and let me know what you think.

This is fullscreen now so there should be no reason for the scrolling issue to pop up.

Cursor calamity is all but over, maybe that'll be the name of my next game lol.

I think I've put more time into this rewrite than I did to get the game to look like this in windowed mode, but hopefully she runs good now.

Next big issue to tackle is timing. It just runs wayyyy too differently depending on the rig, so that's the next issue.

Thanks Asimov,Lux,Chili for the help!

[Muttley]

Worked fine here, Win7 x64.

Good job!

[thetoddfather]

Thanks Muttley!

Still a few minor things to fix, but all in all it seems to be working good, fingers crossed.

[LuX]

Yup, pretty cool alright.

I would like to see a gas canister you can spray on the screen then set it on fire : -D

[Asimov]

Hi Todfather,

Sorry it didn't work. In fact it scrolled up so far my laptop fell off the table.

LOL nooooooooooooooooooooo ignore the first line it worked perfectly and doesn't scroll up anymore LOL. I love it now. I knew we could point you in the right direction eventually heh heh.

Hope you didn't have a heart attack after reading my first line LOL