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This kind of slowdown happens with my Sharp claws game too. I really dont know if its our fault or SGDK.

Try game and see yourself Possibly game itself have some flaws for slowdown. Possibly too many sprites and drawing stuff, but that scrolling information screen have nothing more in cycle than scrolling. And as you see it scrolls fluent some seconds and than lags for some secs and it keeps cycling l...

Small game developed with SGDK. SGDK was good way to learn genesis, but it seems have more flaws that makes developing troublesome. Like inconsistent gamespeed. Images wants to overdraw sprites and so on. So it is in latvian language, but in short you are martial master who founds strange tower and ...

strange part about VDP_drawImageEx is TILE_ATTR_FULL where i use index from already uploaded tiles. So it means im uploading in that index tiles again? If so i can whole map generation move to setMap as i uploaded every tile once.

Now i atleast know how to get things out of spritesheets:
VDP_setMapEx
Very usefull function.

Also does VDP_setMap will be faster than standart VDP_drawImageEx?

Also can i change plane size for A and B differently(f.e. A: 32x32 B: 64x32)?

Hello again. Now im at place where i want to make ui things. And i just dont understand some stuff around window/s. WARNING: the window tilemap should always be the first object attribute in VRAM <- It means i need to put window in first indexes? I can use only one or more windows? How im supposed t...

Of course its a bit slower. Its possible to see it loading in like in 3 farmes, but that shouldnt mess things afterwards when all stuff is there in memory. I kinda dont want to make whole image for map tilemap and also to make content array to actually know what is in this map. I better use one arra...

Its not so bad to wrap into Object im doing same with almost everything what needs advanced behaviour. One free field is too less for such case. You could remove it at all in most cases for more memory. Only thing what it could be good is for storing flags. And you are true, using pointers who lead ...

#define new(struktura) MEM_alloc(sizeof(struktura)) #define newm(struktura,daudzums) MEM_alloc(daudzums*sizeof(struktura)) I like to close creation more or less to C# style so i use macro Object* CreateObject(Sprite* sprite, fix32 x, fix32 y) { Object* obj = new(Object); if(obj != NULL) { obj->spri...

Thanks. fixed vars works beautiful.

I know im putting out much topics, but who else i will ask. As i already know floating points isnt native to genesis and someone have made custom workaround for this. I want to use them for sprite positions, but im not getting clear with some things. 1. Can i use min max functions on them? Or there ...

Have anyone else experienced 1 pixel lags for part of lines when moving backgrounds - especially can feel when moving whole plane? Although speed is exactly 60 fps. Sprite movements dont lag. If noone else have this problem possibly im doing something wrong with background setup. void Karte_zimet(Ka...

Thanks for advice. When i will have time i will look under hood. For now i wrote struct who have Sprite array, length and occupied array. Every unit just registers for unused sprite in that arry. All others are just made invisible. If im running out of space i can only pray about ram to be able to c...

Why SPR_update accepts only full struct array? Also why i need to update all of them at once? And its not said anywhere. If i update one sprite all other go invisible. I wanted atleast to be able to put array together from pointers, but no - its not good enough. I really wanted sprite as part of uni...

Thanks for all this info. I exactly wondered how im supposed to feed animation speed for sprites. But still - how im supposed to break spritesheet into small images? In your case you assume use of predefined map which i pump into VRAM. So i could use one spritesheet for all map tiles (4x4size) and m...