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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
Charset animation problem
Hi there.
I known how to animate a charset that contains 8 charsets. Which is something like this:
CHARANIM INC ANIMPOINTER
LDA ANIMPOINTER
CMP #$08
BNE ENDANIM
LDA #$00
STA ANIMPOINTER
JSR ANIMATE
ENDANIM RTS
ANIMATE LDX #$00
WRAPCHR LDA $0A00,X
STA $0A40,X
INX
CPX #$08
BNE WRAPCHR
LDX #$00
WRAPCHR2 LDA $0A08,X
STA $0A00,X
INX
CPX #$40
BNE WRAPCHR2
RTS
Easy eh? Unfortunately, I'm trying to animate a charset which somehow has a bigger animation. The animated chars are from $0910-$0a40. Please can you help me get an accurate animation for chars $0910-$0a40 (Putting $0a40 to $0910 and wrapping the frames for all the chars from that range :( ? |
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Scout
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 1568 |
Animate a charset that contains 8 charsets?
Could you be more specific?
Maybe you can solve the problem using ROL's? |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
Sorry, I must have worded it wrong.
I want to animate 39 chars starting from the first char (to be animated at $0910) and to the last char (to be animated at $0a40). :(
Therefore the animation should consist of 39 frames.
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 833 |
If you are viewing just ONE animated char on the screen (which i hope you are on about) that consists more than #$20 chars of animation (which goes over one full memory page) then you are better off reading char memory locations and storing it into a temporary char that is to be viewed on the screen, rather than wrapping the whole animation memory, saving a lot of raster-time.
Here something I coded up... I'm not too sure if it's 100% of what you are wanting though...
(subroutine)
ldy #$07 ;Number of lines per char - 1
ldx #>$0910 ;Animation memory (Hi-location) < $09-- >
AnimCounter
lda #$00 ;Where you store the current frame number
asl
asl
asl
bcc *+3
inx
stx $03
clc
adc #<$0910 ;Animation memory (Lo-location) < $--10 >
sta $02
lda $03
adc #$00
sta $03
CharWrite
lda ($02),y
sta $2000,y ;Memory of the animated char viewed on the screen
dey
bpl CharWrite
ldy AnimCounter+1
iny
cpy #39 ;Number of animation frames
bne *+4
ldy #$00
sty AnimCounter+1
rts
NOTE:
The statement "sta $2000,y" is the memory location of the char you want to view on the screen, so in this example, you need to view the "@" char and set $d018 to #$18 ($2000-$27ff).
The statement "cpy #39" is the number of frames you want animated.
Hope this helps a bit. Let me know. |
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Laxity
Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 459 |
I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what you're trying to do. Also I think the method you ultimately implement would depend on what the animated character is part of.. I guessing it a background thing, right?..
I understand this:
1. You want to animate 8 characters in the charset buffer.
2. The animation sequence is 39 frames long.
Is that correct?
Furthermore I understand that the 8 characters will be showing 8 instances of the same animation, with on frame difference from instance to instance (deducted from what I think the code snippet does). Is that correct? |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
I want to animate all 39 characters in the character buffer, not 8 :( |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 833 |
Richard: when you mean "character buffer", do mean just one char? If so, then the code above with do just that! |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
All 39 chars :)
Place $0910 to $0a40 and then keep pulling it through to $0910 again. This is so that the 39 chars I am using will animate.
Just like the way I do a colour washing routine that moves from the right of the screen, right over to the first byte.
eg. lda table1
sta table1+39
ldx #0
wrap lda table1+1,x
sta table1+0,x
inx
cpx #39
bne wrap
It is hard for me to explain, but I'm using chars $22 - $48. So char $22 gets copied to $48 and the chars $23 - $27 go back one char, and then repeat inside a loop. So that way I can get a visible char animation.
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3136 |
The fastest way I can think of doing it is by using an unrolled loop, still takes lots of rastertime.
;---------------------------------------
; Animate some chars, unrolled loop
; ~6*8 lines of rastertime taken
; dasm used
; iAN CooG/HokutoForce
;---------------------------------------
charset = $0800
scr = $0400
charstart = charset+[$22*8]
N_of_chars = 39
; 8 zp temp bytes
ztemp = $49
;d018 value
ns = >scr<<2
nc = [>charset&$3f]>>2
v18 = [ns|nc]&$ff
debug = 0
;---------------------------------------
*=$1000
sei
jsr setmode
jsr setirq
cli
jmp *
;---------------------------------------
animloop
sta rsA+1
stx rsX+1
sty rsY+1
inc $d019
bit $2c2c
bit $2c2c
bit $2c2c
bit $2c2c
bit $2c2c
bit $2c2c
bit $2c2c
nop
inc $d020
;copy 1st element to ztemp
R SET 0
REPEAT 8
lda [charstart+R]
sta [ztemp +R]
R SET R+1
REPEND
inc $d020
;copy 2nd to 1st ... last to last-1
C SET 0
REPEAT [N_of_chars-1]
R SET 0
REPEAT 8
lda [charstart+R+[[C+1]*8]]
sta [charstart+R+[ C *8]]
R SET R+1
REPEND
C SET C+1
REPEND
inc $d020
;copy back ztemp to last
R SET 0
REPEAT 8
lda [ztemp +R]
sta [charstart+R+[[N_of_chars-1]*8]]
R SET R+1
REPEND
lda #0
sta $d020
.if debug == 1
ldx #5
delay
bit $d011
bmi *-3
bit $d011
bpl *-3
dex
bne delay
.endif
rsA lda #$ff
rsX ldx #$ff
rsY ldy #$ff
rti
;---------------------------------------
setirq
lda #>animloop
sta $ffff
lda #<animloop
sta $fffe
lda #$33
sta $d012
lda #$1b
sta $d011
lda #1
sta $d019
sta $d01a
lda #$7f
sta $dc0d
lda $dc0d
rts
;---------------------------------------
setmode
lda #v18
sta $d018
lda #$32
sta $01
lda #$d0
sta trc+2
lda #>charset
sta trc+5
ldx #$00
ldy #$08
trc
lda $d000,x
sta charset,x
txa
sta $0400,x
inx
bne trc
inc trc+2
inc trc+5
dey
bne trc
lda #$35
sta $01
rts
;eof
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
Correction:
It is hard for me to explain, but I'm using chars $22 - $48. So char $22 gets copied to $48 and the chars $23 - $47 go back one char, and then repeat inside a loop. So that way I can get a visible char animation. |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 833 |
I kind of understand what you're trying to accomplish here, which is to actually wrap char memory right around itself (like a sprite side-border scoller for example but instead rotates by 8 pixels (a char) at each frame) ... therefore it's not that hard to code - but i warn you, the bigger animation buffer you have, the more raster time is gonna be eaten up. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2852 |
Do you really need to display all animation phases at the same time? In other words, can't you just copy the current phase to one character once every frame? |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 833 |
Quote: Do you really need to display all animation phases at the same time? In other words, can't you just copy the current phase to one character once every frame?
That's what I thought he was trying to ask, which is why I wasted some time writing that routine I posted a few hours ago.
I think Richard is saying that he wants to view more than one char on the screen which use the same animation data.
But again!- that routine i posted could be used MULTIPLE times to write animation to different individual chars of any set/bank if you think about it. Modifications need to be applied of course. |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
Thanks for your help :)
I'm probably better off using less than 39 chars because of too much rastertime being used :( |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2852 |
39 chars * 8 bytes * 8 cycles / 63 cycles = about 40 rasterlines. Does not sound much to me. |
