RGP: Revolution Grayscale Package

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Sun 13 Mar, 2005 8:28 pm

mnc2fan, my 83+ also runs Desolate at frequency 6...

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 5:44 am

I actually have a whole slew of grayscale routines which are compatible with GPP created software, but of course i seriously doubt any are as good as this.

I have actually been thinking about re-writing Desolate to make it smaller and faster, but thats something for my spare time ... which i dont really have much of.

I may think about using this package when the time comes, but that wont be for a while.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 8:24 pm

My 83+ runs Desolate almost playably at frequency 4... at 6 its fine.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 8:45 pm

Hi Y'all!

I've so far rewritten all of ducks routines and added Sprite clipping and interrupt based contrast control.

So my question is, Are there anymore routines you would like included?

I have a large sprite Vert flip routine, and some old Aligned mappers so if theres anything that may be useful go ahead and ask.

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 8:49 pm

You rewritten ALL his routines? Including gslargesprite? Nice, i thought u wouldn't do it. I dont really need any other routines... Just make it as good as u can

Post by **kv83** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 9:08 pm

Jim, may I advice you to contact tr1p? He has a lot of routines,as he stated before, which might be usefull

I would describe him as seniour user of the GPP by duck.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 9:19 pm

Well those no fun in just letting him give them to me. I could've just left the ion routines, but I want to make them better.

What I really need are ideas, beyond sprite masking I can't think of any thing else to make.

Quick question, does anyone have the 83 equates to GetK(GetCSC), I've just noticed something in ducks code that doesn't match the 83+ equates.

Post by **kv83** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 9:23 pm

If you want to have fun try this: (I was planning to try it sometime)

A Gs routine, which makes a certain area one level darker/lighter.... like you have something like a window in the playfield, and if you walk behind it, your whole sprite goes one level lighter... with that, you can get very nice effects in gs

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 10:29 pm

My logic:
L1 = Dark layer
L2 = Light layer

( L1 and L2 ) CPL -> Mask
L1 or L2 -> L1
( L2 and Mask) xor L1 -> L2

That should increase, I'll get to work on it a little later.

Post by **kv83** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 10:43 pm

May I add, that a demo and animated screenshots always making a lot of people (including me) very, very , very happy?

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Mon 14 Mar, 2005 10:49 pm

Yeah, I'm kinda procrastinating, aren't I?

It's just that I'm not creative at this stuff. Man I gotta think of something new.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 15 Mar, 2005 2:38 am

Yeah Jim e i know what you mean, its always more satisfying to write routines yourself. The routines in Ducks package were kind of wastefull as they did all of the position calculating twice as the standard routine was called twice with the buffers switched. Its much better to get it all done in the same routine. Probably the best one i had was a gsLargeMaskedClippedSprite routine. You are doing great work here

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Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Tue 15 Mar, 2005 2:41 am

gsLargeMaskedClippedSprite

NOW THAT SOUNDS FUN!!!!!!

Toaster · Post by **Toaster** » Tue 15 Mar, 2005 8:24 pm

That would be really nice!! It would be a great bonus to RGP.

GuillaumeH · Post by **GuillaumeH** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 2:24 pm

Jim e> Do your routines have calls to ION's routines ? I remember that Duck's routines first called ION's routines, and then I proposed small modifications that took a few extra bytes in order to make it ION-independent, which is useful to make TI-83 programs for Venus.

Also, are there masked sprite routines ?

MaxCoderz

RGP: Revolution Grayscale Package

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