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2D All the way! / Too many images

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I am making a rpg game dealing with tricking and fighting.
- members.aol.com/gametricking

It is working fairly well, the problem i have now is it randomly shuts down or a image of a sprite gets stuck in an area for awhile (ie - the guy walks but a grayed out image of him stays back at a part).

I think I may have too many images loaded. I set most the images I need (theres a lot since there are 8 characters with about 10-20 images for each) at the beginning. Is this the problem - should I only "get image" when I need it and then immediately delete it?
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Pincho Paxton
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If you have too many sprites on the screen you will get 2 images. If they are not on the screen, then you will be OK. You can get as many images as you like so long as you don't run out of memory, you don't have to delete them, but you can if you want to. 2 images usually means that you computer is slowing down.

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If I run out of memory would the program quit or get an error. Thats what I think is happenning or is it really hard to run out of memory?
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Pincho Paxton
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Yeah your computer will quit. It would take a lot of images to do that. Probably a few thousand. Maybe you are grabbing the same image lots of times by mistake. Or maybe your memory chips are faulty.

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Thanks, maybe its because I have other programs running at the same time too? Anyway you could run my game and see if it happens to you? If not thats cool

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I get the stuck image, but not the crash. Text causes the stuck image problem. You can try 2 syncs after the text or something. Or turn the text into images, and paste them.

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thanks! I will try the sync see if it gets rid of the stuck image.

I think the other is lack of memory because i never really re-boot my computer and have about 4 things running at once. Tonight I will run the program without anything else going.

Did you actually play the game? did it seem too amateurish?
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I had a quick test of the game. The trampolining was happening without me pressing anything. It could be made into a good game with some work. At the moment it is more of a programming test.

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Thanks for the help - I figured out it was bad code that was causing my error not too many images.
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Personally, for any 2D RPG game I'd drop sprites, use paste image instead and it's much easier to Z-sort because you have total control over the drawing order. For example, drawing a map, then sorting and drawing the items and characters is how I'd do it - I'd also draw the map to a hidden bitmap then copy it before pasting the characters and items - that way you only need to draw the map when scrolling - stuff that the character can go behind should be handled as items.

I have a little 2D RPG demo (map editing, item editing, z-sorting, player control, player jumping, sliding collision, screen scrolling, and even location switching for entering buildings). If you like I'll dig out the link for you, it's geared up to resemble Zelda style RPG's.


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Thanks VanB I would like to see that. It does make sense to do it that way, I don't know why I just naturally went to sprites and they cause problems at times
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Here you go...

http://van-b.dbspot.com/Zeldesque.rar


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I have had some similar problems, sometimes my textured models will turn black, it seems as if I run out of memory and my images start disappearing. I have 256 MB of memory and a 64 MB video card, I shouldn't be running out of RAM It seems to only happen on my computer...

Anyone else have their images disappear, entirely or partially?

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