Mirage Source

Sliding Map Transition
ORIGINAL CODE BY DAVE
Difficulty: 3/5 - Requires understanding

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Tutorial Subject to Change with new versions of MS4

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh77gAUOKSE
(Note: Game featured is Merrimint)

[Edit by Dave: tutorial removed because it was copy and paste]
[Edit by Robin: tutorial removed because it was just images with code in them]

Nice, just make it C&P.

At least write it out so people learn something from it.

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Sorry, I meant to mention, I will add explanations tomorrow, I just wanted to actually get it up first, a bit busy IRL at the moment

A lot of that code is unnecessary (like copymemory) and the comments I added were just there because that's what I did first, and then changed it.

So clean it up and make it seem somewhat intelligent, instead of just saying exactly what the svn patch says.

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Seems to me like it needs Optimized Surfaces, because it uses MiddleBuffer, LowerBuffer, and UpperBuffer.

Then again, I'm probably wrong.

It's built for the latest version of Mirage, which comes with optimised surfaces.

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It works fine with a Vanilla MS3.43, not sure what DFA and Dave has changed/removed since then though.

Wouldn't it be better to just move the map on the same layer instead of doing it on another one? It would be harder, however...I think?

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I'd see no advantage to reverting to "the old way of doing things"

The entire map is only drawn once, then the appropriate sections are copied to the back buffer.

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Ah well I guess I just think of hard ways to do things.

Nice work, though.

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I've found a bug in the transition. When the map slides, it displays the tile at the top of the column that your tile is in, as opposed to the tile itself. I will have a look at the code and see what is wrong.

That bug must be because of the new MS version.

It works perfect in both my test bed, and in Merrimint.

Robin nearly has it working in Winds Whisper, too.

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Anyways, in the MSE thread Acruno said he wouldn't make it a copy and paste tutorial. This is clearly a copy and paste tutorial, so I am going to (for once) exploit my moderator powers and remove it. It can be reposted in a not-copy-and-paste format if someone wants.

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I support your decision.

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I had a feeling that would happen, which is why I made a copy for personal use

not like I'm going to use it though, because I'm trying to get scrolling maps working on mine.

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I made a copy of it too. I also don't intend to use it on my game (nor scrolling maps). Though I do have a project in mind that sliding maps would be use full for, I think I'm just gonna use MS4 (or whatever it's called these days)

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Damnett, I didn't get a copy of it.. Lol.

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You mean Dugor is.

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he's trying to get scrolling maps working period, lol. once he gets it working in a blank MS, him and I will work on getting it into my game. But yes, he's been helping me a lot lately and doing an awesome job.

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Somebody PM this to me, please

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lol srsly, it's really easy to do...

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I know I just want to see how you did it and since I've never tried to do it myself I don't know how to.

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Download the source that has it? It's really not that hard.

Download the patch file and add it in?

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It's not in the source yet besides the SVC patch (right?) and I can't get subversion to work yet.

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