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Important: As of 2011-08 this project is discontinued and the download links removed. If you have interest in parts of the source code please PM me. Otherwise have a look at KST here , a great plotter superceding Komplot in about every aspect (except for name :wink:).

Hello,

I wrote a plotter for ...

Good to hear that it's not too tough for the eyes

Random side note: Saving the output of the saver as compressed video is practically impossible, because current algorithms cannot deal with videos where every pixel changes often.

Hi,

I did a sort of texture screensaver some months ago. It's quite psychedelic and colorful. :lol:
You can download it here . Ugly, undocumented source code included.

Color ranges are calculated at startup. So everytime you restart the exe the colors will be different.

http://nursokram.de/blog ...

I opened a bug report topic. Thanks for checking the code

Thanks for the reply, IdeasVacuum.

The example I posted is actually part of a larger piece of software for plotting data on screen. I need floating point numbers to store other types of dates, but using your hint I can at least work around the issue.

Hi,

Either it's too late :shock: or there's something strange going on in this piece of code:

t.d = 0
x1.d = t + ParseDate("%yyyy/%mm/%dd %hh:%ii:%ss", "2021/01/01 17:02:01")
x2.d = ParseDate("%yyyy/%mm/%dd %hh:%ii:%ss", "2021/01/01 17:02:02")
x3.s = FormatDate("%yyyy/%mm/%dd %hh:%ii:%ss", x1)
x4 ...

I'd say you better look for another compiler. I tested it once, didn't like it and really don't know why one should invest money and time into it. As far as I can see it's Windows-only and isn't exactly the best tool for games. PureBasic and even FreeBasic are better for such tasks.

Apart from that ...

The speed problem is no PureBasic error. To avoid this problem programmers must use SetFrameRate() and SetRefreshRate() correctly, otherwise default rates are selected (and these can differ from system to system). But back to the topic...

Good job blueznl 8), even though I can't use the code. :cry: If I would use BMPs instead of JPGs the game would become about 7x larger than now. Even if I mirror my JPGs I use less space. I also can't use DataSections, because this would require a rebuild as soon as one single image changes ...

Thank you guys. I'll use Hroudtwolf's suggestion (StretchBlt), even though this solution is Windows only. Using Linux compatible code seems to be too much of a mess. TransformSprite3D is a nice idea, but it doesn't work (I tested it). Using TransformSprite3D the way it should work results in a black ...

Thank you again. Sounds interesting. I will give it a go... and tell you if one of your suggestions works for the game.

Thank you for your suggestion. I guess you meant the flip sprite code. Unfortunately it is still Windows only. Or did I miss something?

plgblt and some other blitting functions are great for Windows development (BitBlt was my best friend some years ago), but I am planning to do a game that works on Linux and Windows (at least the base; advanced stuff must be done with DirectX). I wondered, whether it is possible to get the Sprite ...

I am trying to mirror (a lot of) sprites during runtime to safe some hard disk space, but unfortunately using an array and the Plot command is very slow. Is there a fast way to do this?

The current code looks like this:

; get source pixels
StartDrawing(SpriteOutput(srcImg))
For i2=0 To ...