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- From: mknip@niksula.hut.fi (Mats Anders Knip)
- Subject: Re: Writing a StarField. Which method is best?
- In-Reply-To: slmt9@cc.usu.edu's message of 7 Nov 92 16:49:10 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:22:14
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- > 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?
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- What do you mean with star-field. 3D-stars? Parallax-stars? Sprite-fields?
- If you're trying to do anything else than a couple of parallax layers
- of stars that move in 2 dimensions, sprites are OK, but if you mean
- 3D-stars, forget sprites. Simply plot the stars to the bitmap!
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