Tagalong Todd Tutorial: Part 4
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Tagalong Todd Tutorial: Part 4
In this part of the tutorial, we'll add code that will put Todd on the screen. We'll do so in a manner that will allow moving him around later.
The complete source for this tutorial (it's a subset of the full tagalong.asm found in the SDK) is here.
How we'll draw Todd
We already have all of the pieces in place to draw Todd on the screen. He's going to use the same drawing of a man, but in a different color. He'll be drawn on the screen using MOB_UPDATE just like we do for the player character. We just need to define the right values and adjust things a little.
A couple of storage places
As you remember, we started drawing the player by having 2 variables for the X and Y positions on the screen. We'll define the same for Todd.
TODD PROC ; TODD's STATS
@@XP RMB 1 ; X position
@@YP RMB 1 ; Y position
ENDP
This shouldn't really require much explanation at this point. If you have a hard time remembering how we setup the player character, go back to part 2 and give it another read.
A small addition to main
Over in main, we want to provide initial values for Todd's X and Y positions.
;; ------------------------------------------------------------ ;;
;; Put you and Todd onscreen. ;;
;; ------------------------------------------------------------ ;;
MVII #$1000, R0
MVO R0, PLYR.XP
MVO R0, PLYR.YP
MVII #$4000, R0
MVO R0, TODD.XP
MVO R0, TODD.YP
Right along side of the initial player position we set a value for Todd.
Changes to MOB_UPDATE
Todd will need very similar code to what we've written already. Specifically, we need to put Todd's X and Y positions into our shadow buffer in the same places where we are currently doing the same for the player.
;; ------------------------------------------------------------ ;;
;; Merge our position with our MOB registers. ;;
;; ------------------------------------------------------------ ;;
MVII #@@mobr, R4 ; MOB information template
MVII #STICSH, R5
MVI PLYR.XP, R0 ;\
SWAP R0 ; |
ANDI #$00FF, R0 ; |- Player X position
XOR@ R4, R0 ; |
MVO@ R0, R5 ;/
MVI TODD.XP, R0 ;\
SWAP R0 ; |
ANDI #$00FF, R0 ; |- Todd X position
XOR@ R4, R0 ; |
MVO@ R0, R5 ;/
So we see a very similar block here for Todd's X position.
ADDI #6, R5
We need to adjust the pointer by 6 locations instead of 7, because R5 has been incremented a second time when we did the operations for Todd.
MVI PLYR.YP, R0 ;\
SWAP R0 ; |
ANDI #$007F, R0 ; |- Player Y position
XOR@ R4, R0 ; |
MVO@ R0, R5 ;/
MVI TODD.YP, R0 ;\
SWAP R0 ; |
ANDI #$007F, R0 ; |- Todd Y position
XOR@ R4, R0 ; |
MVO@ R0, R5 ;/
And similar updates for the Y position.
ADDI #6, R5
And another adjustment of 6 locations instead of 7.
MVI@ R4, R0 ; \_ Player's A register
MVO@ R0, R5 ; /
MVI@ R4, R0 ; \_ Todd's A register
MVO@ R0, R5 ; /
And we need to copy the A register area for Todd as well.
;; ------------------------------------------------------------ ;;
;; Bits to copy into MOB registers. ;;
;; ------------------------------------------------------------ ;;
@@mobr DECLE STIC.mobx_visb ; make player visible
DECLE STIC.mobx_visb ; make Todd visible
DECLE STIC.moby_yres ; make player 8x16 MOB
DECLE STIC.moby_yres ; make Todd 8x16 MOB
DECLE STIC.moba_fg1 + STIC.moba_gram + 0*8 ; Player is blue
DECLE STIC.moba_fg2 + STIC.moba_gram + 0*8 ; Todd is red
And we need to provide Todd the same kinds of bit pattern constants that we provided for the player graphic. Again, if this is unfamiliar check out part 1 of this tutorial for a bit more detail.
That's it!
Assemble and run it. We now see Todd on the screen! He doesn't move yet, but he's there. The last step of our tutorial series will be to make Todd chase us around the screen.
