Hi Michael,

it was in your TBGL_EntitySetTexture request. As this is similar to how I load animated sprites, It should be easy to implement.

Just to confirm, basically you want be able to create separate small textures from one big texture file, right?

Sorry Mike but Petr's already done it and I was just giving feed back and comment.

Hi Michael,

yes, you are right.

But you can use both forms now:
[code=thinbasic]
' -- Dirty
TBGL_LoadTexturesFromTiles "Test.bmp", 1, 4, 2, %TBGL_TEX_NEAREST

' -- Neat
TBGL_LoadTexturesFromTiles ("Test.bmp", 1, 4, 2, %TBGL_TEX_NEAREST)
[/code]

ThinCore parsing functions are done in way this is accepted.

For future, I will not create any new functions without braces :occasion:


Petr

P.S. This function is general purpose, but I think for sprites you will love MikesHartlef new system

I suppose we could take this one stage further and join the sprites with tiles

n = TBGL_SpriteSheetLoad ( fileName, numberOfColumns, numberOfRows, [, TransparentColor ]

returns n an array with the sprite handle in.


but thats up to you Mike, I will let you decide.

thanks

Guys

Sounds good. Now a question to the module masters here on the board. How do I return an array from a module?

I think you can recognize, redim and manipulate array passed byref using thinBasic_Array* core functions.

Other option would be to return string of MKDWD$(handle1)+MKDWD$(handle2)+... and dim the array of DWORDs at the return value ( similar to return custom data from entities ).

I think the first option is more natural, less hack in this case :)


Petr

Hi Michael

next release will have these commands:

[code=thinbasic]

DIM sprCount AS LONG
DIM spriteArray() AS LONG

sprCount = TBGL_SpriteLoadSheet( filename , tilewidth , tileHeight , spriteArray [, TransparentColor] )

sprCount = TBGL_SpriteCreateSheet( filename , tilewidth , tileHeight , spriteArray [, TransparentColor] )

[/code]

Is that ok with you?

Michael

pS.: I attached the changes TBGL module and a sample script so you can play with it.

Thanks Mike, I will test it tomorrow when I have time.

Requested functionality developed and present in ThinBASIC 1.7.8.0 BETA and newer.