Sprites in a 3D environment

[qbasicking]

I am working on a sophisticated 1st person shooting game.
The 3D graphics are beautiful, I am using 63-ray raycasting to show a view of 63 degrees, that seemed to be the easy part, I haven't been able to figure out how to display an enemy properly

I have an image of an enemy stored in a 2D array and I want to display it on the screen, I can work out drawing it all at once and at the proper size, but I want to be able to break it down into rays for two reasons - 1st so that it doesn't flicker as much and 2nd so that it shows up correctly if it is halfway hidden by a wall
Any ideas how to do this?



FYI -
I am using screen 13
Each ray is 5 pixils across
I want the sprites 25x25
The raycaster is preprogrammed to do 18.2 frames per second

 

[agual]

First of all you should be aware of this source:
http://math.artshost.com/1psqb-a8.bas
You can learn many things from it.
You should create an offscreen buffer to avoid flickering.
Well, your question makes me think you are drawing non-textured walls. If you were using thextured walls you would have a routine that reads vertical lines from the texture, rescales them and draws it into screen. That's what you need to draw enemies.
I'm now at work and i can't code here So tell me if you would like some source and i'll post it later.


Antoni

http://www.geocities.com/antonigual/index.html

 

[qbasicking]

never mind - i figured out a way to do it

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