Most of last week was spent busy at work - trying to get enough ahead so I don't bust a braincell when I go back in a weeks time... So, after the list of 'honey-do's' and other household things are taken care of - I'll be able to make some solid progress on EVA.
Nearly all the programming time I've slipped in has been with bug hunting. The change over to ECS showed a couple of sloppy mistakes that took some time to find - I'm keeping my eyes open and constantly revising the code.
Progress was made though - tonight I finished the parallax scroll routines and incorporated a version of a scoreboard. There's a lot of copper stuff going on - more copperlist than program.
Enough progress has been made to give it a 'checkmark' in the notebook - but more tweaks can be done:
Varying the color palette on each 'strip' - and separate each strip into its own graphic (currently they are all in one 'picture')
By making various frames for each strip - it's possible to animate the background graphics with little processor overhead - just change some bitplane pointers and I could have the lava bubbling as it scrolls by.
I'll wait on these until I feel like having another 3 day 'graphics binge' - for now I need a break from scrolling backgrounds and DPaint - and I have just the challenge:
Foreground main ship object and animation system.. the next 'check-mark' entry...
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