- make the animations a bit faster to reduce the amount of time for which the engine is blocked
- separate the display updates from the engine delays
- register user input during the animations
The explosion and cone of cold pixel "animations" have somehow become extremely slow. At least in MSVC debug mode. No idea whether this is a regression from recent OSystem or backend graphics updates. I now set these pixel updates on a strict timer based schedule. If the machine/backend/whatever is too slow it will just get less screen updates...dfdsfsf
Make sure that the right palettes and scroll offsets are set after a sequence is aborted. Instead of actually aborting the sequence we fast forward through it in order to have the same final values as if the sequence had been played normally
The ingame graphics use up 208 pixels out of 224. The top and bottom 8x8 pixel tile rows are left blank.
This commit emulates that. But actually it looks ugly, especially in windowed mode. On a TV screen of that era it was probably unnoticeable.
TODO: GET RID OF THIS COMMIT AND FIND ANOTHER SOLUTION
The first level will now load up when selecting 'start default party' and it is possible to walk around a bit. The Gui (playfield, compass, inventory) is still completely broken, but at least the level blocks and some of the decoration shapes are drawn correctly. Monsters will be drawn, but their anim frames are mixed up, so they will always face the wrong direction and cannot visibly attack.
- add support for the Sega Font and add text display methods at least for the sequence player
- finish sequence player (add all missing opcodes and other missing code portions)
- some improvement to the resource class
- some renaming and cleanup
This also (hopefully) involves most of the necessary graphics code. Text support is still missing. Otherwise, the intro and outro play mostly fine (except for some special opcodes).
Initial file handling, palette and graphics support. The opening credits get played satisfactory. Following up with the cinematics player will be much easier now...
