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Hi all, I'm fairly new to DB, although I have a pretty good knowledge of the basic language (but I haven't used it in a few years). I've been trying to write a game engine in the style of old sierra games (i.e. Kings Quest and Space quest). I have my character who can walk up, down, left and right, plus move from screen to screen (I have a bitmap for each screen). I'm also going to deal with text or mouse input later, I'm just learning the basics right now. I wanted to know if anyone had any ideas on how to make the character walk behind things, and stop at obstacles. I have had a few ideas, but am not sure about the best way to go about this. I have read some stuff about grids, but I don't know if this would work for what I want to do. Any help would great. Thanks.

Eight Year Recoil

You need to use sprites, cut out the image of say a tree, and stick it in a brand new bmp file, colour the background in black, to make it transparent, then paste it as a sprite, after you paste your character, then when you move your character up to the tree, your tree will be refreshed on top of your character, making it look like you character is behind the tree.



put a label in your main code, after your move commands (eg if upkey()=1 then xmove =xmove +1) but before your character sprite commands,
call it something like skipmove:
early in your code stuff, you find out what the exact coords of the stump are then you say
if xmove = treestumpcoordsx and ymove = treestumpcoordsy then goto skipmove

then when you walk into the stump your character wont be able to walk past it, so you have to hold the back arrow to make xmove a smaller number, letting you move again, Obviously that code is really messy as i just thought it up in 5 minutes, so you'll probably want to refine it somewhat.

Hope this helps, Ben

Thanks. That is probably what I'll end up doing. I was hoping to use a memblock or something, but I got that figured out (I think) and it just made it really slow. Hopefully using the sprites will not slow it down as much.

Eight Year Recoil