SCI/Specifications/Graphics

General stuff

The graphics in SCI are generated using four resource types:

• Pic resources for background pictures.
• View resources for images.
• Font resources for drawing text.
• Cursor resources for displaying the mouse pointer.

Those resources are drawn on three distinct maps:

• The visual map, used for displaying the actual pictures the player sees
• The priority map, which keeps information about how the depth of the screen
• The control map, which contains special information