CodeBase - 2D Parallax Stars

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Uploaded: 12th Sep 2003 12:58

Modified: 1st Jan 1970 01:00

Author:  Richard Davey

Summary

I was fed-up seeing so many slow and jittery 2D starfields done in DarkBasic that I did my own. This is a proper parallax, depth shaded starfield and in my tests I was seeing 500 stars on-screen at a smooth 75 fps. Over 800 are possible, read the comments in the source for details.

Full Description

==========================================================<br /> A Screaming Product Of The DARKFORGE (www.darkforge.co.uk)<br /> ==========================================================<br /> <br /> Title<br /> <br /> 2D Parallax Starfield<br /> <br /> Version<br /> <br /> 1.0<br /> <br /> Date<br /> <br /> April 12th 2000<br /> <br /> Files<br /> <br /> 2d_parallax_starfield.dba 921 Bytes<br /> 2d_parallax_starfield.gif 2031 Bytes<br /> <br /> Programmer<br /> <br /> Richard Davey<br /> rich@fatal-design.com<br /> <br /> DB Version<br /> <br /> DarkBasic v1.04 (Registered)<br /> <br /> License<br /> <br /> Public Domain<br /> <br /> Comments<br /> <br /> I was fed-up seeing so many slow and jittery 2D starfields<br /> done in DarkBasic that I did my own. This is a proper<br /> parallax, depth shaded starfield and in my tests I was <br /> seeing 500 stars on-screen at a smooth 75 fps. Over 800 <br /> are possible, read the comments in the source for details.<br /> <br /> ==========================================================<br /> (c) www.darkforge.co.uk 2000<br /> ==========================================================<br />