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BSzili · 15 December 2016, 13:43

Sure, but setting the attached bit allows you to combine two sprites. On OCS/ECS you can combine two 4 color ones into one 16 color sprite. I would assume the same would work for 16 color AGA sprites as well, you could combine them to get 256 colors.
A less complicated solution would be converting the weapons into planar bitmap bit-plane mask pairs, and using BltMaskBitMapRastPort to draw them over the play area. It would be still faster than the brute-force method.
An other solution is bringing back the compiled scalers for sprites. That would also make other scaled sprites super fast, but to do it without self-modifying code it needs much more memory.

15 December 2016, 13:43	#38
BSzili old chunk of coal Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hungary Posts: 1,290	Sure, but setting the attached bit allows you to combine two sprites. On OCS/ECS you can combine two 4 color ones into one 16 color sprite. I would assume the same would work for 16 color AGA sprites as well, you could combine them to get 256 colors. A less complicated solution would be converting the weapons into planar bitmap bit-plane mask pairs, and using BltMaskBitMapRastPort to draw them over the play area. It would be still faster than the brute-force method. An other solution is bringing back the compiled scalers for sprites. That would also make other scaled sprites super fast, but to do it without self-modifying code it needs much more memory. Last edited by BSzili; 15 December 2016 at 15:13.