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[malik_cjm]

Hi,

 

Recently I was playing with my old BTCOD mod.

I found a way to load and display images in PNG format using SDL2 and SDL2_image libraries.

As a test I just converted one of the COMMANOD  animation frames to PNG image and displayed it on top.

 

 

 

Next on my list it to convert WAD file to series of PNG files and try to use it in the game engine.

I already found what needs to be modified, just need to double check if it will not crash the game engine. 

 

Do you have any ideas how loading resources PNG format might be used?

 

 

I was also playing with adding scaling possibility to the game engine.

For now I can control size of each part of the game window separately.

 

My idea is to force map view to draw to separate buffer then scale this buffer and draw it in the game windows.  

Edited by malik_cjm, 16 March 2025 - 09:06 PM.

[Jeroen]

Good stuff! I use Allegro myself. Attached is a spritesheet have, I do animations with that. Good luck with the environments that's more difficult.

 

Attached Thumbnails

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Edited by Jeroen, 18 March 2025 - 10:49 AM.

[malik_cjm]

Short update. I was able to redirect rendering commandos view to separate buffer and scale it with XBR algorithm.

To be able to compare result with original I'm rendering scaled version in separate window.

 

 

 

[wyel2000]

good job  

Short update. I was able to redirect rendering commandos view to separate buffer and scale it with XBR algorithm.

To be able to compare result with original I'm rendering scaled version in separate window.

 

commandos_orig.png

 

commandos_XBRx2_new.png

[malik_cjm]

Another small update on the progress.

I switched to different scaling algorithm called scale2x (https://www.scale2x.it/)

XBR algorithm slowing game down. There is a possibility to use multiple cpu core if available, but this is for the future.

Game window resize triggers 2x scaling if view width is bigger that 800 pixels.