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Two key components of the backend API are the game graphics (used for drawing the game graphics, surprise surprise), which are currently limited to 8bit palette mode, and the overlay graphics (used to e.g. draw the GUI, and currently either 16bit or 8bit palette, fixed at compile time). For the overlay API, it would be nice if we could support arbitrary graphics modes, e.g. also 24/32bit modes. | Two key components of the backend API are the game graphics (used for drawing the game graphics, surprise surprise), which are currently limited to 8bit palette mode, and the overlay graphics (used to e.g. draw the GUI, and currently either 16bit or 8bit palette, fixed at compile time). For the overlay API, it would be nice if we could support arbitrary graphics modes, e.g. also 24/32bit modes. | ||
The current overlay API is rather inflexible when it comes to supporting different modes. Most code assumes that the overlay is in 16 bit mode. For 8bit mode, a compile time switch has to be used, and supporting 24/32bit mode is virtually impossible. Furthermore, which variant of 16bit mode is determined through an ugly global variable <code>gBitFormat</code> (set by the InitScalers() function in <code>graphics/scaler.cpp</code): This variable is set to values like 555, 565 to indicate the 16bit mode variant (555 meaning that 5 bits are used for each color component, while 565 means 5bits for red, 6 for green, 5 for blue). Some systems use other modes, like 1555, 4444, or even use BGR instead of RGB. For 32bit modes, things are even more complicated. | The current overlay API is rather inflexible when it comes to supporting different modes. Most code assumes that the overlay is in 16 bit mode. For 8bit mode, a compile time switch has to be used, and supporting 24/32bit mode is virtually impossible. Furthermore, which variant of 16bit mode is determined through an ugly global variable <code>gBitFormat</code> (set by the InitScalers() function in <code>graphics/scaler.cpp</code>): This variable is set to values like 555, 565 to indicate the 16bit mode variant (555 meaning that 5 bits are used for each color component, while 565 means 5bits for red, 6 for green, 5 for blue). Some systems use other modes, like 1555, 4444, or even use BGR instead of RGB. For 32bit modes, things are even more complicated. | ||
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