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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: How to rotate PICTs?
Keywords: mac game PICT resource
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Date: 18 Oct 90 17:44:42 GMT
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In article <53697@brunix.UUCP> cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan) writes:
>I am writing a game that involves the use of many square-shaped PICT resources.  I'd like to be able to display them pointing up, down, left, or right.  Do
>I have to include four PICTS for each image (one pointing in each direction)
>in my resource file in a brute force approach or is there a nicer way
>I could just have one PICT per image and internally rotate it?

Brute force would actually be faster.  If you really want, you can use the
QDProcs feature & tweak the coords when drawing your PICTs.

>How are PICTs stored? I take it that they are not bitmaps - hence my question
>on how to rotate them.  Thanks in advance for your help.

See IM V.  It's fairly straightforward, though huge.

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