From: Jeff Farris <farris DOT 15 AT osu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Sprite Movement?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:01:47 -0500
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I'm no expert, but I was messing around with something similar and made
a large, screen-sized "background" sprite that was basically the scene
with none of the "upper-layer" sprites on it.  

To move a single sprite, just blit out the existing sprite on the screen
with that particular rectangle from the backgound sprite, which leaves
you an unmolested scene with which to re-blit the new sprite.

Its entirely possible there are better ways, but it worked...:)

Jeff 

Helix wrote:
> 
> Ok, lets see how accuratly I can describe this.
> 
> The problem is movement, when the character moves from one tile to the next
> he still appears on the previous tile. Now normaly you would simply redraw
> the previous tile over the character, I'm however constrained in that
> respect. What I would need would be a method of "deleting" the previous
> character without messing up the rest of the terrain, or maybe something
> like a function that makes the previous bitmap or sprite transparent.
> Color mode is 256 colours.
> 
> I've been at this for a long time and I would appreciate any help in this
> respect.
> 
> My e-mail address is maciek AT compmore DOT net
>