COMPILED_SPRITE(3)

✨ COMPILED_SPRITE ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Allegro manual — like, the actual Allegro game programming library — and today's main character is COMPILED_SPRITE. it stores the contents of a compiled sprite. that's it, that's the vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

typedef struct COMPILED_SPRITE

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's what's inside the struct, no cap:

• short planar; — set if it's a planar (mode-X) sprite 👀
• short color_depth; — the color depth of the image 🌈
• short w, h; — the size of the sprite 📏

and now the wild part: compiled sprites aren't stored as pixels, they're stored as actual machine code instructions that draw a specific image onto a bitmap, using mov instructions with immediate data values. like, the sprite is the code. it's giving main character energy fr fr. 🔥

bestie pls go read the chapter "Compiled sprites" — it explains the restrictions and how to obtain/use this structure. iykyk, don't skip it. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• get_compiled_sprite(3)
• BITMAP(3)
• RLE_SPRITE(3)

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ this was Allegro, version 4.4.3 — mwah, go forth and compile ur sprites, bestie 🎀🦋💜