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From: avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pointer information
Keywords: Special data format
Message-ID: <1546@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 88 19:52:52 GMT
References: <48096@sun.uucp> <440@sas.UUCP>
Reply-To: avery@puff.WISC.EDU (Aaron Avery)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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In article <440@sas.UUCP> walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
>You will be able to understand this more easily if you look at the
>description of a SPRITE instead of the intuition pointer, since the
>intuition pointer is merely an instance of a simple sprite.

Also note that an easy way to make sprite data is to set up Deluxe Paint II
in two bitplane mode, draw the image, and save it as a 16-pixel-wide brush.
Now, examine the file, and the BODY section should contain the image data
in the appropriate format, as long as it's not compressed, which can be 
checked in the BMHD hunk. I've done this for importing sprite images into
my source code. 'type opt h' can be of help here, too.


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Aaron Avery (avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu)
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