How do sprites work?
- by Alan
How do sprites work?
I've seen sprites from old school games like Super Mario Brothers, and wondered how they're animated to make a game.
They're always presented as one big image map, so how are they used?
For Mario (as an example) are there precalculated image co-ordinates that outline mario, and are swapped between various mario sprites to produce animation?
Or are sprites pre "cut" during game initialization using precalculated images co-ordinates and stored in memory somewhere?
Obviously I know nothing about game development.
