Re: [dcrpg-devel] DC RPG

[Miles R. <reu...@ya...>]

Why would this be struct be memory-intensive?  It uses a bit-field so that
each tile consists of 16bits or 2bytes.

Maybe I'm just not understanding your suggestion... can you give an example
code fragment which utilizes your proposal?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Atonkelton" <Ato...@gm...>
To: "Mailinglist" <dcr...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [dcrpg-devel] DC RPG

> hi,
>
> I personally like the con-/destructor suggestion. It's more flexible.
> So we're not bound with a particular map-layout (other than rectangular,
> that is).
>
> I just played around with FF1 and Zelda (NES/SNES) they do not seem to
have
> wrap-around maps. But we could make that optional for our mappers.
>
> NOTE:
> this structure can get pretty big, if used in big numbers
> struct tile
> {
> unsigned int walkable : 1; //0 not walk, 1, walkable
> unsigned int front : 1; //0 back, 1 front
> unsigned int monster_info : 7; //monster id(s)
> unsigned int event_id : 7; //event id *
> unsigned int fg_sprite_id : 8; //foreground sprite id *
> unsigned int bg_sprite_id : 8; //background sprite id *
> } tile;
>
> I suggest putting boolean into a integer-value and then
> AND or XOR them out -> little memory-friendlier.
>
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