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Character-set animation without copying everything

2 replies · opened JUL 29 ago

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
Animating water tiles by rotating a few character definitions. It works, but I am currently copying more bytes than the effect deserves.

Do you keep a small list of changed character indices and touch only those each frame?
REPLY #1
Yes. Update only the characters that change, and spread work across frames if the motion tolerates it.
REPLY #2
Three good water frames beat eight nearly identical ones. Spend the saved bytes on a tiny fish.

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