For some reason or another, I've found myself getting pulled back into C/C++ programming for many reasons including radiology development and developing a high school Computer Science curriculum for my home-schooled teens and out home-school co-op. While I have a bit of experience with programming, it's usually within a command-line interface with very little being done graphically or for Windows.. Even today, all of the MUMPS programming that I do is at a command line.

So today, I have done it. Successfully accomplished the creation of a window, loading of an texture from a file, and applying that to a 64 x 64 sprite. The result is my very first sprite ever!

I created the Sprite from hand, consisting of 4 64x64 sections each for cardinal point facing. Next is a change of facing upon event (keytroke maybe). And then movement. Finally, animation. This all is proving to be a whole lot more time intensive and less intuitive as it was say, 15 years ago...

As a consequence, you can imagine the possibilities that I have in my mind for an old 8-bit or 16-bit styled sprite-based JRPG...






((I'm sorry for Photobucket....that site is garbage. Gonna figure something out soon enough...))

Added the apha channel to the texture so now it looks a lot better.

I imagined this was about your discovery of a delicious carbonated beverage or even the discovery of a tiny magical being. After reading, I prefer to still imagine that to be the truth

See, my mind went here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)



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Had a bit of a setback here. Went from sprites to circles and squares, but it's all good, 'cause I can take what I've learned and apply it to mythical winged creatures. I may draw and scan in the frames myself... Darn French side of me an it's artsy-fartsy OCD....

The Shiny Spite Demo!!

Here it is, as promised. I took advantage of my half day off today to apply a small mythical winged creature to what I've done with squares and circles...

(Albeit, she's not very shiny....)



Here is the 4-1-1:

This was written in C++

The grid that you see is a 10 x 10 grid consisting of 32 x 32 cells. The images for the sprites are 32 x 32 as well, all images are on a single PNG "sprite sheet."

The sprites for the player (sprite, aka fairy) have a forward-facing, rear-facing, left-facing, and right-facing images. I have additional frames for animation, but I never had time to implement the animation yet.

The player sprite reacts to the Up,Down,Left,and Right arrow keys. Holding down an arrow key does not make the sprite move consecutively, rather, one keypress equals one space moved. This was by design, of course.

You can see the fairy move off of the grid....whoops' I think the window was 800x600, so that is the limits. I wonder what would happen if I tried moving her off of the grid ... Would she fall off the edge of the world, or find herself in China?

Do keep in mind, that this is awfully rudentary. I am learning, and believe it or not, have just knocked out some concepts with this. After a few years in MUMPS it is a bit, oh, shall we say, adventurous, trying to go back to C++. But it's worth it. I even wrote the "player" as a class, consisting of an X and Y variable for location, and functions to "set" and "get" those values. It's starting to come back to me, little by little.

s'lovely <3