[Example]Loading Sprites via NitroFS!

[Foxi4]

Once again a fancy Source for you to review. It's fully commented and ready for action!

NitroFS Sprites.dsgm

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SPOILER ALERT! the *huge* sprite we'll be loading is one of the newest FalloutDS sprites I'm using in my project!

Please, do Comment!

[Foxi4]

...guess nobody's interested in reviewing the code.

Look guys, I know this isn't perfect - I do want to improve it. I want to push it to the point where the sprites will be accessible via the standard DSGM actions (although that'll probably require editing the makefile... :/) so do me a favour and at least take a "glance", mmm-kay? I'm not "experienced enough" to see any space for significant improvement, this IS a rough sketch...

[Buck_7]

Okay, this is pretty cool. So this dosen't take up any space?

[Foxi4]

Well, not exactly. The buffers are fixed and memory IS allocated for them, but that's a huge space saver anyways.

In the example, there is 1 buffer char* into which a sprite is loaded. The difference between this and the standard method is that you can have as many sprites as you like and load them from Nitro into the buffer whenever you like, rather than keeping all of them in RAM at the same time.

If you have a room in which you know you will use only, say, 5 sprites and you have 25 sprites altogether, it's more "space efficient" to prepare 5 buffers and load the 5 sprites you need rather than loading all the sprites when the application starts. You save ALOT of RAM space and you can swap the sprites currently loaded at any given time.

[Foxi4]

Example now obselete, reffer to NitroSpritesLib.