Scaling Sprites

[mothdragon]

I thought I remembered at one time having come across some kind of scaling function for Bitmap Objects, but I can't seem to find it now... Is there a scaling function (either up or down) that can be used when displaying a Bitmap, or a portion of the Bitmap(ie sprite)?

What I want to do is to take a sprite from my spritesheet and make it smaller at various points.

[mothdragon]

Oh I found it. Its the Stretch() method in the Surface Object. Guess I was looking in the wrong spot, I had been looking at the Bitmap Object...

[jerome]

Good morning Charlie

Yes, there is Surface::Stretch. It works just like Surface::Blit, except it takes 2 sets of coordinates.

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void Stretch(Bitmap src, int dx, int dy, int sx, int sy, int w, int h, int sw, int sh)

Destination x, y
Source x, y
Destination w, h
Source w, h

So you tell the function which portion (a rectangle) of your source bitmap should be used to stretch over a rectangular area of your destination surface.

There is also Filter() which takes the exact same parameters as Stretch, but will do bilinear filtering so the result will generally look nicer (at a performance cost in a non-accelerated driver). Stretch() will pixelize.

Regards,

Jerome