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Re: whats the fastest way?

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Subject: Re: whats the fastest way?
From: p_mueller1 at gmx dot ch
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:00:05 +0200 (MEST)
> At 7:37 PM +0200 7/22/03, p_mueller1 at gmx dot ch wrote:
> 
> >  > What sort of game do you want to make?
> >
> >I wanna make a 2d-Game. I use a unmodeled Canvas as engine because I
> wanna
> >use masks. Its like the game "Deimos Rising".
> 
> I'm not familiar with that one -- is it related to Mars Rising?
> 
> OK, in this case you're going to have a pretty big screen with a lot 
> of stuff moving around on it.  You really won't get good performance 
> out of a Canvas with that.  The SpriteSurface would be quite 
> appropriate (see my "Centauri" demo on the CD for a similar example), 
> but if you need 8-bit masks, then I'd recommend using an Rb3DSpace.
> 
> If you have issue 1.1 of RB Developer (http://www.rbdeveloper.com), 
> you'll find an article called "Three Ways to Animate" which compares 
> the three approaches and shows how to use the Rb3DSpace as a fancy 
> SpriteSurface.
> 
> You can also find some info on that in the Rb3D FAQ, at 
> <http://www.strout.net/info/coding/rb/>.
> 
Hm OK,
but the screen isnt very big, its 480 x 480 pixel ( screen resized to 640 x
480 ).
Is that really impossible?

Philipp


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