Sprite Engine

[amateus]

Hi,

My current project will be finished in AGD, and I intend to try AGD multi platform.

One of the questions I've been meaning to ask: Are there plans to improve the sprite engine? 

I ask because I would like to have:

1) Sprite masking, so to have the possibility to use backgrounds
2) z-index with sprites and blocks to actually choose if a sprite can pass behind or in front of a block

Thanks

[Jonathan Cauldwell]

MPAGD is designed so that it is easy enough to modify the engine you're using, just edit the enginezx.asm file. Anyone can modify the engine to do different things and I expect some brave souls will do just that and publish their alternative engines. I'll probably publish one or two alternative engines myself. While the changes you ask for would be difficult and require a complete rethink of the way the sprite engine works, I may create an engine with modded sprite and block code that displays sprites behind blocks, a la the Egghead series. The downside would be that it would require an extra 6K for a dummy screen and support fewer sprites on screen at 25 frames per second