bg.exe sprites help?

[JWinslow23]

Hello! I'm new here on the forums, and I have a big aspiration to port 2048 to the command line using Batch. Problem is, I want to make it graphical, using the Sprite function in bg.exe, and I need a bit of help understanding the syntax for it. And should I use sprites at all, or should I just use colored text? I would appreciate any help I got on this. Thanks!

[AiroNG]

You can find the post from carlos where he points out how to use bg.exe here.

Hope it helps.

[JWinslow23]

I saw that, but for some reason, the only characters it seems to accept as pixels are /0, /20, and /DB. I understand everything else, but shouldn't there be other characters available for use? There seem to have been in the example game, SokoBox.

[AiroNG]

Maybe this will help:
try this code and you can see that a few characters wont work.

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@echo off & cls & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion & Color 07
bg.exe sprite 5 2 a \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\n
bg.exe sprite 6 2 a  \11\12\13\14\15\16\17\18\19\20\21\22\23\24\25\26\27\28\29\30\31\32\33\34\35\36\37\38\39\40\41\42\43\44\45\46\47\48\49\50\51\52\53\54\55\56\57\58\59\60\n
bg.exe sprite 7 2 a \61\62\63\64\65\66\67\68\69\70\71\72\73\74\75\76\77\78\79\80\81\82\83\84\85\86\87\88\89\90\91\92\93\94\95\96\97\98\99\100\101\102\103\104\105\106\107\108\109\110\111\112\113\114\115\116\117\118\119\120\n
bg.exe sprite 8 2 a \121\122\123\124\125\126\127\128\129\130\131\132\133\134\135\136\137\138\139\130\131\132\133\134\135\136\137\138\139\140\141\142\143\144\145\146\147\148\149\150\151\152\153\154\155\156\157\158\159\160\161\162\163\164\165\166\167\168\169\170\171\172\173\174\175\176\177\178\179\180\n
bg.exe sprite 9 2 a \181\182\183\184\185\186\187\188\189\190\191\192\193\194\195\196\197\198\199\201\202\203\204\205\206\207\208\209\210\211\212\213\214\215\216\217\218\219\220\221\222\223\224\225\226\227\228\229\230\231\232\233\234\235\236\237\238\239\230\231\232\233\234\235\236\237\238\239\n
bg.exe sprite 10 2 a \240\241\242\243\244\245\246\247\248\249\250\251\252\253\254\255\256\n

pause > nul

This is what i see when i run the code above:


keep in mind that some ascii-characters are used as controll characters (see http://www.ascii-code.com/) so they might not be displayed.
Also: different codepages might result in different ascii characters.

[carlos]

The last version of bg (2.8) use hexadecimal notation in the sprite unlike decimal notation in previous version. For example, the space character is \20 instead of previous version \32

Also, I'm updating the bg, and the sprite function will be replaced. It will be other thing different. It will read the sprite from a binary file.
Coming soon I will post it, because I only develop it in the weekend in the free time.
It will fly.

The develop version is found only in source code, every change I left here:

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http://consolesoft.com/p/bg/

[JWinslow23]

Oh! My problem was that my version used decimal notation, and I was using HEXADECIMAL!

But the weirdest part of that is, the hexadecimal Space Invaders alien example did work for me, too. :\

I bet I can figure it out from here. Thanks!