Mirage Source

np, I've got a bit of spare time right now.

Umm, yes, anything you blit to the backbuffer will be sent to the screen on every execution of the gameloop.



If you follow the code through Sub GameLoop you'll notice calls to each of the Blit Subs (BlitTile, BlitPlayer etc), each of these subs builds up the map layer by layer onto the backbuffer, then the line of code above sort of picks it all up and slaps it on the screen.

The main associations with the surface are made in Sub InitDirectX then the code above uses this bit -

to know where to put the image from the backbuffer.

So, why does it blt below the player when it says:


which would imply that it blts 4 pixels above the player...

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Bingo... you had me baffled there for a minute, but check it out....

the call to blit the .DrawBox to the BackBuffer uses y + 32 to calculate the position of the HP bar.

I think the -4 bit is to make up for the slight offset of the sprites on the map, ever noticed that they don't quite fit on the map squares properly?

I was working on changing my things around in my NPCs (read Portal To Bakaria development logs to see exactly) and after changing the getNpcMaxHP sub, I couldn't attack me NPC's. Looking into it I found this code:


I uncommented it and it worked fine. But why has it been commented out? In a vanilla MSE1 it is commented out to...

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OK. I logged in after changing server code that requires password to be case sensitive. And after clicking cancel under frmChars I get an error in my frmNewChar. I immediatly go wtf because it was in the timer in frmNewChar. This error only happens when I hit cancel on a seperate form. The error is an RTE 9 in:


What doesn't make sense is that this is in a different form. Any help?
(also if someone could help me in my above post it would be helpful)

Also, this only happens because for some reason, in the DestroyTCP sub it loads the frmNewChars which activates the timer which doesn't work because the frmNewChar isn't initalized yet. Yet, I see no call to load this form only:

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