Ok, with neslib, you will be loading the OAM (sprite) buffer. It will automatically send them to the PPU during v-blank. The only thing you need to do, is keep track of the index into the OAM buffer.
unsigned char sprid;
Oh, and I clear the OAM at the top of every frame.
oam_clear();
(Alternatively, you could call oam_hide_rest(); at the end of all sprite drawing code.)
To send 1 sprite, you use this function.
oam_spr(unsigned char x,unsigned char y,unsigned char chrnum,unsigned char attr,unsigned char sprid); // it returns a char, the current index #
sprid = oam_spr(X_position, Y_position, 0, 0, sprid);
chrnum is the tile #. attr is which palette 0-3 (and H and/or V flipping).
I made some metasprites with NES Screen Tool 2.3. And used the ‘Metasprite/Put single metasprite to clipboard as C’ option, and pasted it into a .c file. Notice that I only made the left half of the sprite graphics, because the right half is just a mirror image of the left, and you can flip sprite tiles.
Then, to put a metasprite into the OAM buffer…
oam_meta_spr(unsigned char x,unsigned char y,unsigned char sprid,const unsigned char *data); // it returns a char, the current index #
sprid = oam_meta_spr(X_position2, Y_position, sprid, metasprite);
…where ‘metasprite’ is an array of chars that represents the sprites used, and their relative positions.
So, here’s the code. I’m shifting the position of each sprite object by adding 1 to it’s Y position each frame. You use ppu_wait_nmi() to wait for the beginning of the next frame.
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/92m5gikr51emf9d/lesson24.zip
