SCI/Specifications/Graphics

3.1 General stuff 3.2 SCI Ports 3.3 The Cursor resource 3.3.1 Color mapping for the SCI0 mouse pointer 3.3.2 Color mapping for the SCI1 mouse pointer 3.4 The SCI0 View Resource 3.4.1 The View Resource 3.4.2 Cell List 3.4.3 Image Cell 3.5 Font resource 3.6 The SCI0 and SCI01 pic resource 3.7 SCI1 palettes 3.7.1 Palette types 3.7.2 Palette format 3.7.3 Installing a palette 3.8 Kernel calls 3.8.1 Palette syscall 3.9 Windows, Dialogs and Controls 3.10 Pictures and movement control 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