Hi all, Im finally getting the hand of this directx/directdraw stuff (yaya for me!) Anyway The game Im working on is a top-down tles based rpg (compleatly 2d, nothing facy, i figure i better start off with something im halfway decent with and finish it). Im working on a "world map" (you know, sorta like final fantasy) where you can travel around the world (by foot, by air or by sea) but right now Im stuck. I can ''sorta'' get the map to loop by resetting the world_x and world_Y coordinates, however this isnt the effect im looking for. Im lookign for more of a smoothness.

  
inline void TNW_Engine(void)
{
	int index, index_x, index_y, start_map_x, start_map_y, end_map_x, end_map_y, offset_x, offset_y, texture_x, texture_y;
	start_map_x = world_x/64;
	start_map_y = world_y/64; 
	end_map_x = start_map_x + 10 - 1;
	end_map_y = start_map_y + 7 - 1;
	offset_x = -(world_x % 64);
	offset_y = -(world_y % 64);
	if (offset_x)
		end_map_x++;
	if (offset_y)
		end_map_y++;
	texture_x = offset_x;
	texture_y = offset_y;
	for (index_y = start_map_y; index_y <= end_map_y; index_y++)
	{
		for (index_x = start_map_x; index_x <= end_map_x; index_x++)
		{
			textures.x = texture_x;
			textures.y = texture_y;
			textures.curr_frame = world[index_y][index_x] - ''0'';
			Draw_BOB(&textures,lpddsback);
			texture_x += 64;
		}
		texture_x =  offset_x;
		texture_y += 64;
	}
}
  

so my problem is, that when I reach the end of the map, i want it to scroll smoothly, instead of a ''zelda'' type of transformation. --LordKaT

This is just an idea, so:

Instead of for (x ...) for (y ...) have something like:

index_y = 0;
index_x = 0;

while (on_map)
{
textures.x = texture_x;
textures.y = texture_y;
textures.curr_frame = world[index_y && map_width][index_x && map_width] - '0';
Draw_BOB(&textures,lpddsback);
texture_x += 64;
index_y++;
index_x++;
};

Or something... see what I'm getting at?

Edited by - morfe on January 1, 2001 9:05:43 PM