Inspired by this thread at FK games I decided a nice little break from mansion would be in order and started playing with a geometry wars style grid.

It's still not a 100% right, and I think to get much more speed out of it I'm going to have to really rethink it, but it does look pretty cool.

A lot of the actual clever stuff which is beyond me was taken for a example at the always astounding liquid journey site. I also used bytearray.org's raster based line plotter, which I tweaked slightly to try and get a few more ms out of it ( Code for the tweak is here )

public static function quickLine(bmp:BitmapData,x0:int,y0:int,x1:int,y1:int,c:Number):void{
    var i:int;
    var xinc:int;
    var yinc:int;
    var cumul:int;
    var x:int = x0;
    var y:int = y0;
    var dx:int= x1 - x0;
    var dy:int= y1 - y0;
    xinc = ( dx > 0 ) ? 1 : -1;
    yinc = ( dy > 0 ) ? 1 : -1;
    dx = (dx ^ (dx >> 31)) - (dx >> 31);            //Math.abs
    dy = (dy ^ (dy >> 31)) - (dy >> 31);
    bmp.setPixel32(x,y,c);

//Test for a straight vertical line
    if(dx==0){
          for ( i = 1 ; i <= dy ; i++ ){
            y += yinc;
            bmp.setPixel32(x,y,c);
        }
        return;
    }
    if(dy==0){
          for ( i = 1 ; i <= dx ; i++ ){
              x += xinc ;
            bmp.setPixel32(x,y,c);
        }
        return;
    }
   
    if ( dx > dy ){
        cumul = dx >> 1;
          for ( i = 1 ; i <= dx ; i++ ){
            x += xinc;
            cumul += dy;
            if (cumul >= dx){
                  cumul -= dx;
                  y += yinc;
            }
            bmp.setPixel32(x,y,c);
        }
    }else{
        cumul = dy >> 1;
          for ( i = 1 ; i <= dy ; i++ ){
            y += yinc;
            cumul += dx;
            if ( cumul >= dy ){
                  cumul -= dy;
                  x += xinc ;
            }
            bmp.setPixel32(x,y,c);
        }
    }
}

And that's about it really. I'm hoping to play with this some more next time I get chance and hopefully make a homage to a certain popular shoot'em up.

GWars.swf (7 KB)

Squize.