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DTA_Angle

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Allows a graphic to be rotated when drawn via the Screen API.

Necessary for animating Blood's weapons, as they make use of rotations often.
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Re: DTA_Angle

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Someone will have to write a 2D drawer for these first or the feature will be a bit limited.
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What Graf means is that currently the 2D drawers in Software mode use the sprite/wall drawers which are incapable of doing these things. You would need an actual rotating drawer to accomplish this - they're not hard to write, but they tend to be a deathly performance killer if you don't do it just right.

Yes, these drawers are important. We're not dropping a feature just because it's too inconvenient for any given contributor to help maintain it.
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Re: DTA_Angle

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This should tie in nicely with the ability to rotate psprites too, perhaps, right?
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Re: DTA_Angle

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Major Cooke wrote:This should tie in nicely with the ability to rotate psprites too, perhaps, right?
:lol:, that topic :lol:. Anyway, I would very much like both
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@ZippeyKeys12 could we please not bump old topics with "has this been done?" or "has this been revisted yet?" Thank you.
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Re: DTA_Angle

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Would it be possible to get this hardware-only until support for rotations in software is added? It'd be like a +ROLLSPRITE situation.
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The Zombie Killer wrote:Would it be possible to get this hardware-only until support for rotations in software is added? It'd be like a +ROLLSPRITE situation.
Absolutely not. Besides, writing software drawers is not as bad as you think.
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Re: DTA_Angle

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DTA_Rotate flag was added to the Screen API some time ago (thanks to a backend update from Raze) - but more related to the use case in the OP, weapon PSprite overlays are able to rotate and scale for quite a few versions now.
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