Intermediate C++ Game Programming Tutorial 10

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The promised day has come. We're finally going to be loading images from bitmap files into memory and drawing them as sprites on the screen. This is where all that stuff we've been learning--data types, pointers, memory management, file access, etc.--is going to pay off bigtime. Also, get fukt massive PutPixel sprite functions; die in a garbage fire.

Topics Covered

  • Surface class for storing image data in memory
  • Parsing Windows bitmap file headers and loading pixel data
  • Drawing sprites (pixel blocks) from a Surface to the screen

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Tutorial 10

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Homework

The homework is to improve the bitmap loading routine to support 32-bit RGB format and to support bitmaps with reverse row order.

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