NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/alt/sys/amiga/demos/1470

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From: [e-mail] (Eivind Eklund)
Subject: Re: Writing a StarField. Which method is best?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: Sprite vs Bitplanes
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Keywords: Starfield,Stars
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Joshua Dinerstein) writes:
>    In this one I would like to add a star field. But I got to thinking
>about it and I am not sure what method is the best/fastest. Is it fastest to
>try to use and reuse Sprites to put the stars up. Or is just simple drawing the
>best?
>
That depends on what kind of starfield you want to do. If you want a
simple one, of the type just going from left to right, then you will
defineatly be better of using sprites.  You CAN do this for one going out
from the center too, but using bitplanes is usually easier.  You can never
KNOW that you will have enough sprites if you do one coming from the center.

For one coming from the center, just use perspecive on points coming
towards you for the SIMPLEST (not fastest) implementation.

Eivind Eklund aka Vishnu Cryptoburners
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