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An attempt to get multidirectional scrolling as smooth as possible. Arrow keyes to turn/move. The frame trims 60 pixels off each direction, reducing the size of the required sprites. Its not much, but every little helps performance. There are 9 background sprites, each is 420x300 pixels, giving a total scrollable area is 1260x900 pixels. Sprite locations are only updated when the sprite is on-screen, otherwise it hides. When running in "programming" mode, its a bit jerky around the edges, but its really smooth in presentation mode - hopefully it will be equally smooth online! If anyone can make suggestions to optimis the code further, please do.
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You should make it smooth by using velocity and set x velocity to x velocity times 0.09
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thanks mayhem! ive learned a lot about sidescrolling from u look (link to project).
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excellent, I'm sure this will be the basis for many projects!
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No problem - I would have tried it if I was at home, since it would have takenvery little time with the software I have there, but being away and using a borrowed PC means it would be more hassle than I am willign to get into right now.
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Your right that I could do it myself. Somehow the fact that I could download it, in fact that I had allready downloaded it, skipped my mind... Sorry to have bothered you. ;)
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Could you perhaps download my Rescue ship thing, extract the graphics and see if your scrolling works just as Jerkyless with my background?
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Very smooth. I can see this being part of a lot of games.
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Great Mayhem! Very smooth!
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Left/right arrow keys to rotate, Firward/Back keys to give the illusion of forwards/backwards movement.
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I don't believe it! Makes me wonder what I did that made it so damn jerky. Can it be the image size? *Downloads*
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what do I do??
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