For some reason or another, I've found myself getting pulled back into C/C++ programming for many reasons including radiology development and developing a high school Computer Science curriculum for my home-schooled teens and out home-school co-op. While I have a bit of experience with programming, it's usually within a command-line interface with very little being done graphically or for Windows.. Even today, all of the MUMPS programming that I do is at a command line.
So today, I have done it. Successfully accomplished the creation of a window, loading of an texture from a file, and applying that to a 64 x 64 sprite. The result is my very first sprite ever!
I created the Sprite from hand, consisting of 4 64x64 sections each for cardinal point facing. Next is a change of facing upon event (keytroke maybe). And then movement. Finally, animation. This all is proving to be a whole lot more time intensive and less intuitive as it was say, 15 years ago...
As a consequence, you can imagine the possibilities that I have in my mind for an old 8-bit or 16-bit styled sprite-based JRPG...
((I'm sorry for Photobucket....that site is garbage. Gonna figure something out soon enough...))
