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3    GRAPHICS

3.1  LOW LEVEL GRAPHICS ROUTINES

Example1
  This example shows how to create your own display, and fill
  it with a lot of pixels in seven different colours.

Example2
  This example shows how to create a large Raster and a smaller
  display. We fill the Raster with a lot of pixels in seven
  different colours and by altering the RxOffset and RyOffset
  values in the RasInfo structure, the Raster is scrolled in
  all directions. This method to scroll a large drawing in full
  speed is used in many games and was even used in my own
  racing game "Car".

Example3
  This example shows how to create a display that covers the
  entire display. This method is called "Overscan", and is
  primarily used in video and graphics programs, but can also
  be used in games etc to make the display more interesting.

Example4
  This example demonstrates how to open two different ViewPorts
  on the same display. The first ViewPort is in low resolution
  and use 32 colours, while the second ViewPort is in high
  resolution and only use 2 colours.

Example5
  This example demonstrates how to open a ViewPort in interlace
  mode.

Example6
  This example demonstrates how to create a ViewPort in dual
  playfield mode. Playfield 1 use four colours and is placed
  behind playfield 2 which only use two colours (transparent
  and grey). Playfield 1 is filled with a lot of dots and is
  scrolled around while playfield 2 is is not moved and is
  filled with only five grey rectangles.

Example7
  This example demonstrates how to create a ViewPort with the
  special display mode "Hold and Modify".

Example8
  This example shows how to use the functions: SetAPen(),
  SetBPen(), SetOPen(), SetDrMd(), SetDrPt(), WritePixel(),
  ReadPixel(), Move(), Draw(), Text() and finally PolyDraw().

Example9
  This example shows how to flood fill a figure, and how to
  draw filled rectangles (both solid as well as filled with
  single and multi coloured patterns).

Example10
  This example demonstrate how to use the Area Fill functions.
  [ AreaMove(), AreaDraw() and AreaEnd(). ]

Example11
  This example demonstrate how to copy rectangular memory areas
  with help of the blitter.



3.2  FONTS

Example 1
  This example shows how to open the ROM font "Topaz". (Topaz
  is the standard system font, and is placed in ROM on all
  Amigas. If you have told preferences to use a 60-character
  display the 9 pixel size will be used, else (80-character
  display) the 8 pixel size will be used. This example prints
  some text in both sizes.

Example 2
  This example demonstrates how to change the style of a font.
  We will open the ROM font "Topaz" and change the style to
  underlined, bold and italic. Well, we try to use all
  mentioned styles, but it may happen that we are not allowed
  to use some styles.

Example 3
  This example demonstrates how to open a disk font (Opal, 12)
  and prints some characters with the new font in a window.
  Note! The font "Opal" must exist in the systems FONT:
  directory or you will receive an error message!

Example 4
  This example opens disk fonts and prints some interesting
  information about them. (Height, width, flags, style, etc...)
  Syntax: Example4 [font1] [font2] [font3] ...
  (The largest size of each font will be used.)

Example 5
  This example demonstrates how to use the AvailFonts()
  function. All available fonts (both on the disk as well as in
  the memory) will be listed together with some useful
  information about them.

Example 6
  This example demonstrates how you can use a font loaded from
  a disk in your own Intuition programs.



3.3  SPRITES

Example1
  This program shows how to declare and initialize some sprite
  data and a SimpleSprite structure. It also shows how to
  reserve a sprite (sprite 2), and how to move it around. The
  user moves the sprite by pressing the arrow keys.

Example2
  This program shows how to declare and initialize some sprite
  data and a SimpleSprite structure. It also shows how to
  reserve a sprite (sprite 2), and how to move it around. The
  user moves the sprite by pressing the arrow keys. In this
  example we animate the sprite (6 frames, taken from
  the arcade game Miniblast).

Example3
  This program shows how to set up a 15 coloured sprite, and
  how to move it around.



3.4  VSPRITES

Example1
  This example demonstrates how to get and use a VSprite.
  The VSprite can be moved around by the user by pressing
  the arrow keys.

Example2
  This example demonstrates how to use several VSprites each
  with its own colour table.

Example3
  This program demonstrates how to animate several (!) VSprites.

Example4
  This example demonstrates how to use a VSpriteon a display
  you have created yourself. We must now use the low level
  functions MrgCop(), and LoadView(), instead of the more
  sophisticated functions MakeScreen(), RethinkDisplay().



3.5  BOBS

Example 1
  This example demonstrates how to use a BOB. This BOB does
  not have any features like saving the background, have
  transparent parts etc. It is simply a BOB which can be
  moved around the screen by pressing the arrow keys.

  Since this BOB will not restore the background, it will
  leave a trace of lines after itself while it is moving.
  As you will also notice, the BOB will not have any
  transparent parts. If you move the BOB over some lines
  there will appear to be a box around the BOB.

Example 2
  This example demonstrates how to use a BOB that restores
  the background as it is moving around on the display. This
  time we use a high resolution screen, and the BOB will
  therefore also be smaller than in the previous example.
  Normal hardware sprites as well as VSprites are not
  affected by the display modes, while BOBs are.

Example 3
  This example demonstrates how to use a BOB that has
  transparent areas. The BOB will also restore the
  background while it is moving around. This BOB will
  therefore act like a normal sprite, but can be much
  larger, have more colours, and there is no limit on
  how many BOBs can be used at the same time.

Example 4
  This example demonstrates how to use a BOB on a display
  which we have created ourself. This BOB will also use
  three different images which we switch between to make
  the missile really look like it is flying.

Example 5
  This example demonstrates how to use several BOBs on a
  single display. Note that the BOBs are some times
  flashing and may appear to "flicker". The reason why
  it looks like that is that the Amiga does not manage
  to draw all BOBs before they are displayed. If you
  only intend to use a small limited number of BOBs there
  is usually not any problems. However, if you are using
  many BOBs, as this example demonstrates, they may start
  to "flicker". See next example on how to solve this
  problem.

Example 6
  This example demonstrates how to use a BOB on a double
  buffered display. If you have to use several BOBS it
  may happen that the user can see that the BOBs are
  drawn, and they appear to "flicker". By using a double
  buffered display we can draw the BOBs into one bitmap
  while we are displaying the other. When all objects
  have been drawn we switch bitmap and prepares the
  other and so on...

Example 7
  This example demonstrates how to use several BOBs on a
  double buffered display. No matter how many BOBS we draw
  they will never "flicker" as would happen if we used a
  normal single display. Try and change the "BOB_NR" to 50
  (or even higher) and watch your Amiga sweat!

  This example also demonstrates how you can use one single
  image and yet draw the BOBs in several different colours.

Example 8
  This example demonstrates how to use the automatic collision
  routines. 15 BOBs will be randomly placed on the screen. The
  BOBs will have the colours red, green and blue (set randomly).
  The BOBs will then start to move in all directions. If a BOB
  has hit the border of the display the collision routine will
  detect this and change that BOB's direction. If a BOB hits
  another BOB three things may happen:

  1. If one of the BOB was green and the other red both will
     become yellow.

  2. If a blue BOB has hit a green or red BOB the green or red
     BOB will become yellow, while the blue BOB is unchanged.

  3. If a yellow BOB hits another BOB nothing will happen. (No
     collision events will be triggered.)

Example 9
  In this example are we using a BOB as a planet rotating
  around another BOB which is the sun. The planet consists
  of 13 images all in different sizes. By moving the planet
  from side to side and at the same time changing the size of
  the image it looks like the planet is moving around the
  sun. To make the impression realistic we have to place the
  planet in front of the sun when the image of the planet is
  large, and place it behind the sun when the image is small.

  This is a simple demonstration how you can use the "Before"
  and "After" fields of the Bob structure. To add a "little
  extra touch" to the program are we altering the colours of
  the planet as it is moving around the sun.

  Since we are using quite a lot of graphics I have divided
  this example into three parts. The main module is this file
  "Example9.c". All graphics is placed in the second file
  "Example9Graphics.c", and all constants are declared in the
  third file "Example9.h" which is included by the two other
  modules. Both this file and the graphics file are compiled
  separately and then linked together.

  If you are using the SAS (Lattice) C Compiler you simply do
  the following things: (If you do not have the SAS (Lattice)
  C compiler you should check your own manual for more
  information about how to link two modules together.)
    1. Compile this module: "lc Example9.c"
    2. Compile the graphic module: "lc Example9Graphics.c"
    3. Link both files together: "blink with Example9.lnk"
       (The file "Example9.lnk" contains all information the
       linker needs to tie the two modules together.)



3.6  GRAPHICAL TRICKS

Example 1
  This example demonstrates how you can use the Blitter to
  copy areas and do logical operations like "AND", "OR", and
  "INVERT". These types of operations are necessary if you
  want to place a picture on top of a background area, but
  leave some areas unchanged.

  In this example we will copy a "source" picture on top of
  a "background". Only the masked areas should be copied,
  and the rest of the background should be left unchanged.
  TO illustrate how the binary operations are executed we
  are using two simple areas which should be combined, and we
  are only using four colours.

    Source + Destination + Mask = Result
    ------   -----------   ----   ------
    0110     0123          0110   0113
    0220     1230          0110   1220
    3312     2301          1111   3312
    1002     3012          1001   1012

Example 2
  This example demonstrates what happens if you copy an
  image on top of a background and do not use a mask. As
  you will see, a complete copy of the image will replace
  the background. Even the background colour (black) will
  be copied.

  Sometimes you may want to place a picture on top of a
  background, but do not want to copy everything. You may
  for example only want to copy the image, but not the
  background colour around it. To do this you have to use
  a "mask" which tells the computer which pixels of the
  background should be modified, and which should not.
  Next example demonstrates this.

Example 3
  This example demonstrates how you can draw an graphical
  image on top of a background. The interesting thing about
  this example is that we are using the Blitter to draw
  the image together with a mask that makes some areas of
  the image transparent.

Example 4
  This example demonstrates how to use a double buffered
  display. Although we draw a lot of lines the animation
  is smooth and does not "flicker".

Example 5
  This example demonstrates how you can use some small
  graphical blocks ("map blocks") to compose a whole
  display. With this technique can you create hundreds
  of different maps, and still not use much memory.

Example 6
  This example demonstrates how to scroll a large mountain.
  The mountain is much wider than the screen. We can
  therefore only see a part of the mountain as we scroll it.

  Note that the mountain is sometimes "flashing"! The reason
  why this happens is that we are scrolling the mountain at
  the same time as we display it. If we are unlucky we have
  only scrolled some of the BitPlanes when the mountain is
  redrawn, and thus the wrong coulours are used. (When we
  scroll a RastPort we actually move the BitPlanes
  separately. If you are using a display with a lot of
  colours, BitPlanes, it may happen that we do not manage to
  move all of them within one display frame.)

  To avoid this flickering we need to use a double buffered
  display, where we show one of the screens as we scroll and
  redraw the other. See next example.

Example 7
  This example is very similar to the previous example,
  but this time are we using a double buffered display.
  The mountain will therefore not appear to flash like
  it did before.

Example 8
  This example demonstrates how you can write programs that
  are scrolling huge maps. The maps are of course built with
  help of several map blocks. We are also using a double
  buffered display to avoid any flickering and create smooth
  scrolling. (The scrolling is not perfectly smooth since
  other tasks running at the same time are now and then
  stealing the processor from our program. If you add more
  things to the program like BOBs etc the scrolling will be
  a bit slower but actually also smoother.)

Example 9
  This example demonstrates how you can write a "Text Scroller".
  It can use fonts of any size, and will automatically adjust
  the size of the display. To make the scrolling smooth and nice
  are we using a double buffered display.

  Synopsis: Example9 <fontname.font> <size> <textfile>
  fontname: Name of the font you want to use. Eg: Coop.font
  size:     Height of the font.               Eg: 42
  textfile: File name of the text file. The characters in the
            file will be printed.             Eg: Text.doc

  E.g.: Example9 Coop.font 42 Text.doc



3.7  3D

Box3D
  In this example we will rotate a 3D-rectangle. We will turn
  it in all three dimensions (x, y and z) and use perspective
  (the further away from the eye the smaller the object will
  be).

Commodore3D
  In this example we will rotate a more complex 3D-object. We
  will turn it in all three dimensions (x, y, and z) and use
  perspective.



3.8  COPPER

Example 1
  This example demonstrates how you can use your own copper
  list. The copper list is connected to a screen running under
  Intuition.

Example 2
  This example demonstrates how you can use your own copper
  list. The copper list is connected to a display which we have
  made ourself.

Example 3
  This example demonstrates how you can write a "Text Scroller"
  which is both using a double buffered display to create
  smooth scrolling and our own colour copper list.

  The font we are using is not loaded from the disk. We have
  instead included it in the program code itself with help of
  "IncludeFont". The copper lists in all these examples were
  made by CopperDraw.

  This program is a nice example on how you can combine the
  examples and utilities in this manual to create impressive
  programs, games and demos.

  To start the program you have to give it one argument, a file-
  name to the text file which will be printed:

  Synopsis: Example3 <textfile>