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 Post subject: A few Q's
PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:22 am 
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I am going to be driving (er riding actually) in a car for 10+ hours on sunday monday wednesday and thursday, and i will have nothing to do, so i figured i would make a mirage type engine (same thing as mirage, but codded from scratch) and i had a couple of questions before i start.

Should i use Sing Double or Tripple Buffering?
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Should i work with resource files or .bmp/png/gif/whatever files.

more questions to come. Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: A few Q's
PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:45 am 
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errrr just read up on resources, they are a waste of time, nevermind that question,


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 Post subject: Re: A few Q's
PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:27 am 
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Sing Double?

As for which file type, it should be fairly obvious. DirectDraw = .bmp, Dx8 = .png

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 Post subject: Re: A few Q's
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Use .png no matter what form of graphics you use. It saves hard drive, and they're converted to bitmaps in memory anyways.

Use double buffering, triple is overkill and unnecessary. I don't know what sing double is.

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 Post subject: Re: A few Q's
PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:33 pm 
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whoops i should have checked what i wrote, sing = single. and thanks for the help/


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