I've started creating a game using the 640x480 res.
Not a real complain here, but I'm still wondering: while drawing the walk-behind areas can be done pixel perfect (for obvious reasons), how come it is only possible to draw hotspots/walkpath/regions in 2x2 pixel instead of at a 1 pixel precision as well? If I'm correct, the masks are stored as bitmap anyway, so there's no limitation due to storing vector coords or stuff like this.
Is it a limitation introduced on purpose, eg. to reduce the "pixel hunting puzzles" trend or sth? ;D
Actually I believe it's all stored as an array.
I'm not sure why hotspots are 2x2 pixels, probably because it's not as important to have 100% pixel perfect placement for a hotspot, and there's also no point in beefing up a games size just for that.
But the walkpaths I know are 2x2 mostly because of the path finding algorithm having twice as much to calculate if it were single pixels.
probably 4 times as much infact.
Ok, that's the kind of reason I was expecting. Thanks for clarifying it for me guys!
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Sat 24/04/2010 05:15:09
probably 4 times as much infact.
Argh, you're right. I was thinking of angles and straight lines. I guess that path finding algorithm does calculate "around" and check each grid area. Doh.
Well the walkpaths having 2x2 pixels would seem rather silly since the pathfinder scales it down to 1/3.
Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Sat 24/04/2010 15:46:19
Well the walkpaths having 2x2 pixels would seem rather silly since the pathfinder scales it down to 1/3.
But the walkpaths ARE 2x2.... ? Me confused. :P
Walk-behinds are pixel-perfect for obvious reasons.
The other types of area mask are stored at half-resolution to reduce memory usage and improve performance, since they don't need to be accurate to the pixel level (unless as you say you're really going for it with a pixel hunting puzzle!)