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Coding > Plotting pixels
#14935 - StealthElement - Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:30 pm
when pixels are displayed using the common DrawPixel() function, do they have a priority?
#14936 - animension - Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:51 pm
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when pixels are displayed using the common DrawPixel() function, do they have a priority?
Plotting individual pixels is usually done in a non-tiled mode. Only tiled graphics modes and sprites have any understanding of priority, and even then you're dealing with priority on a layer or sprite-OAM basis instead of pixels.
So, no, individual pixels don't have any internal priority representation. _________________ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
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#14939 - sajiimori - Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:14 am
Yeah, bitmaps are just long strips of color values, one for each pixel. When you know that, it's pretty obvious that plotting a pixel just means replacing one of those values with a new color.