Scale doesn't work as SetScale in BMX?
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| Does Scale work in the same way as SetScale in BMX? I don't know if I am doing something wrong or it just acts different. Looks like porting from BMX will be a pain. Monkey seems to be using different philosophy. |
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| it acts VERY differently, it makes distances larger if you scale up for starters :) this is how you draw a scaled image: pushmatrix translate 20,20 scale 2,2 drawimage img,0,0 popmatrix you have to translate before you scale if you dont want scale to affect distance |
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| Hi, Easier/faster way; DrawImage img,x,y,rotation#,scalex#,scaley#,frame=0 |
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| Looks like porting from BMX will be a pain. Nah, not really... the main issue I have is SetColor not working with Images... it is a different language at the end of the day, but it is very similar to BlitzMax. |
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| Mark, thanks for help. therevills: you are probably better than I am at it :) It's those little nuances like Scale that work so much different in both languages that make the porting process a pain. Languages are similar so it makes you feel they behave similar, and once they don't you lose all day wondering way things don't work as expected. |
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| Languages are similar so it makes you feel they behave similar, and once they don't you lose all day wondering way things don't work as expected. Yeah thats true... also Ive been messing with Monkey since public release now, so Ive got the basics down pat, you just got to learn the language :) |
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| As I used and still use the way Mark described, I wonder which advantage someone has using the way slenkar described. Are there any? |
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| Are there any? None... if you look in the mojo source code graphics.monkey, you can see what DrawImage img,x,y,rotation#,scalex#,scaley#,frame=0 actually does: Translate x,y Rotate rotation Scale scaleX,scaleY Translate -image.tx,-image.ty |
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| Well, if short DrawImage doesn't set all of those params then using slenkar method would actually save few calls to GPU (ie. for drawing a lot of particles it can have performance impact). |
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| Check the source code for graphics.monkey... In the "short" drawimage it does this: PushMatrix Translate x-image.tx,y-image.ty ValidateMatrix Before it does the actual draw... There is only one less method call that only call slenkar's way and thats Rotate rotation, and wouldnt you want particles to rotate anyway? |
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