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                   Stratagus - A free fantasy real time strategy game engine

There are lots of video functions available, therefore this page tries to summarize these separately.

Note: care must be taken what to use, how to use it and where put new source-code. So please read the following sections first.

Video main initialization

The general setup of platform dependent video and basic video functionalities is done with function

See also: InitVideo

We support (depending on the platform) resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 with colors 8,15,16,24,32 bit

See also: video.h; video.cpp

High Level - video dependent functions

These are the video platforms that are supported, any platform dependent settings/functionailty are located within each separate files:

SDL : Simple Direct Media for Linux, Win32 (Windows 95/98/2000), BeOs, MacOS (visit http://www.libsdl.org)

See also: sdl.cpp

Low Level - draw functions

All direct drawing functions

Note: you might need to use Decorations (see above), to prevent drawing directly to screen in conflict with the video update.

See also: linedraw.cpp; sprite.cpp