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Originally posted by Dr. Trowel:
I just tried it. It works. Screenshot coming. Wait for it....

Edit: Here it is:

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I took some steps that were probably unneeded; I think the only thing that I did that mattered was to replace the spin for the stars (ID 700) with one that pointed to the RLEs for the "huge" opal-bearing asteroid. Note that some of the RoidStars overlap each other. They aren't animated -- Nova picks one frame for each star, and it doesn't change.

(And yes, I am piloting a winged cheese, with a winged cheese for an escort. Guess where you can pick up one of your own. 🙂 )

Edit again: Some oddities. The StarRoids don't appear until their midpoints enter the screen -- in other words, they appear to pop into existence, rather than sliding into view. They exit the screen smoothly, however. They also seem to have some translucency when they cross each other in different planes of the parallax field (unless the mask for the asteroid is really sloppily made, so that black pixels within the roid are acting as holes).

These things would be less noticable with smaller star sprites.

(/B)

As for the oddities, that's what I figured. I wish it could be modified so the stars don't overlap each other, but this is so obscure of a change that it could hardly be called a bug...

The translucency is actually there constantly- that's one of the effects of a parallax starfield. All of the objects are translucent to some degree or another, adding to the illusion of depth.

However, as I and Dr. Trowel said, it'd be much less noticeable with smaller sprites... I really can't think of a case where you would need sprites as large as an asteroid. 8x8 pixels per sprite was more than enough for small rocks and bushes, I'd assume you'd never go over 32.

~ SP

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