From: Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@te...> - 2001-12-26 18:28:57
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> > Do we really need compiled sprites? I ask cause i have never used > > them myself to be honest, well, for other than trying... Have you? > > we can remove compiled sprites. rle sprites can be worth having because of > their low memory footprint. I used compiled sprites for a gui running in high resolution on crap hardware (below pentium), which were much faster than any other bitmap type, and the only ones which didn't flicker. This may not be a very good argument nowadays. As for rle sprites, they don't use run lenght encoding to reduce space/size, but to make faster blits. Search the allegro mailing list with "rle sprites compression blit" and read the last message from George Foot. -- Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz gr...@te... http://gradha.infierno.org/ |