I just ran across this site, and DarkBasic. Looks very interesting.
I have a quick question that I hope the answer to will start me learning how to program and make games with this software and years of productivity to come afterwards.
I need to make a simple (heh heh) program that will let me load a large graphic (photoshop created star map) file and allow me to center it on a section of said map. Then I want to be able to have a a control panel that lets me scroll sideways, upways, diagonalways, and perhaps even up and down through multiple "layers."
The graphic file (my starmap) is very big so I want to be able to load it as I go along (or automatically break it into smaller tiles if possible) so that it doesn't totally overload the memory.
Is something like this possible? It's more of a game-aid than an actual game but I'm open to expanding what it can do over time if I can at least get that much working.
Thanks for ANY and ALL info for this, I have been really wanting to do this and DarkBasic seems to have a wonderful set of features. I just hope they extend to this project of mine.
Look, maybe I didn't say every tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
--Ash, Army of Darkness
