Newbie on sprites... help pliz?

[Archimedes]

Hi there

I'm pretty new to basic so if it would be more sensable for me to Google for manuals then please say. (I didn't look already as in another post it was mentioned that tuts on other Basic compilers would be useless for this one.

I've looked at the examples and want to display a simple bitmapped sprite.

This is what I'm trying;

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my_sprite=addsprite(1,1)
movesprite my_sprite,1,1
sleep 1

sprites:
datalong $11111111 ' 0: my_sprite
datalong $10000001
datalong $10000001
datalong $10011001
datalong $10011001
datalong $10000001
datalong $10000001
datalong $11111111
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This produces a sprite on the screen but it's always just a random symbol. How do I read my data into the my_sprite variable?

[Archimedes]

Sorry, I see what I scroted up. So to read and display multiple sprites I would go;

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loadtiles SPRITE_BANK,2,256

MY_SPRITE_LEFT=addsprite(1,1)
propsprite MY_SPRITE_LEFT,256,0
movesprite MY_SPRITE_LEFT,128,128

MY_SPRITE_RIGHT=addsprite(1,1)
propsprite MY_SPRITE_RIGHT,257,0
movesprite MY_SPRITE_RIGHT,440,128

SPRITE_BANK:
datalong $00000000 ' 0: MY_SPRITE_LEFT
datalong $00111100
datalong $01011010
datalong $01100110
datalong $01100110
datalong $01011010
datalong $00111100
datalong $00000000

datalong $11111111 ' 1: MY_SPRITE_RIGHT
datalong $11000011
datalong $10100101
datalong $10011001
datalong $10011001
datalong $10100101
datalong $11000011
datalong $11111111
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Never fear! I shall be back with further idiotic questions :D

~ Archie.

[oompa loompa]

i'll be a waitin
;D ;D ;D

[Tom Maneiro]

i need some time for learn that sprites stuff... ;D