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⌂ ∞ Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Drawing circles: BLINE

[NES version, Bank 1]

       Name: BLINE                                                   [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Drawing circles
    Summary: Draw a circle segment and add it to the ball line heap
  Deep dive: The ball line heap
             Drawing circles

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * CIRCLE2 calls BLINE
             * PLS22 calls BLINE




 Draw a single segment of a circle, adding the point to the ball line heap.



 Arguments:

   CNT                  The number of this segment

   STP                  The step size for the circle

   K6(1 0)              The x-coordinate of the new point on the circle, as
                        a screen coordinate

   (T X)                The y-coordinate of the new point on the circle, as
                        an offset from the centre of the circle

   FLAG                 Set to $FF for the first call, so it sets up the first
                        point in the heap but waits until the second call before
                        drawing anything (as we need two points, i.e. two calls,
                        before we can draw a line)

   K                    The circle's radius

   K3(1 0)              Pixel x-coordinate of the centre of the circle

   K4(1 0)              Pixel y-coordinate of the centre of the circle

   K5(1 0)              Screen x-coordinate of the previous point added to the
                        ball line heap (if this is not the first point)

   K5(3 2)              Screen y-coordinate of the previous point added to the
                        ball line heap (if this is not the first point)

   SWAP                 If non-zero, we swap (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2)



 Returns:

   CNT                  CNT is updated to CNT + STP

   A                    The new value of CNT

   K5(1 0)              Screen x-coordinate of the point that we just added to
                        the ball line heap

   K5(3 2)              Screen y-coordinate of the point that we just added to
                        the ball line heap

   FLAG                 Set to 0



.BLINE

 SETUP_PPU_FOR_ICON_BAR ; If the PPU has started drawing the icon bar, configure
                        ; the PPU to use nametable 0 and pattern table 0

 TXA                    ; Set K6(3 2) = (T X) + K4(1 0)
 ADC K4                 ;             = y-coord of centre + y-coord of new point
 STA K6+2               ;
 LDA K4+1               ; so K6(3 2) now contains the y-coordinate of the new
 ADC T                  ; point on the circle but as a screen coordinate, to go
 STA K6+3               ; along with the screen y-coordinate in K6(1 0)

 LDA FLAG               ; If FLAG = 0, jump down to BL1
 BEQ BL1

 INC FLAG               ; Flag is $FF so this is the first call to BLINE, so
                        ; increment FLAG to set it to 0, as then the next time
                        ; we call BLINE it can draw the first line, from this
                        ; point to the next

 JMP BL5                ; This is the first call to BLINE, so we don't need to
                        ; copy the previous point to XX15 as there isn't one,
                        ; so we jump to BL5 to tidy up and return from the
                        ; subroutine

.BL1

 LDA K5                 ; Set XX15 = K5 = x_lo of previous point
 STA XX15

 LDA K5+1               ; Set XX15+1 = K5+1 = x_hi of previous point
 STA XX15+1

 LDA K5+2               ; Set XX15+2 = K5+2 = y_lo of previous point
 STA XX15+2

 LDA K5+3               ; Set XX15+3 = K5+3 = y_hi of previous point
 STA XX15+3

 LDA K6                 ; Set XX15+4 = x_lo of new point
 STA XX15+4

 LDA K6+1               ; Set XX15+5 = x_hi of new point
 STA XX15+5

 LDA K6+2               ; Set XX12 = y_lo of new point
 STA XX12

 LDA K6+3               ; Set XX12+1 = y_hi of new point
 STA XX12+1

 SETUP_PPU_FOR_ICON_BAR ; If the PPU has started drawing the icon bar, configure
                        ; the PPU to use nametable 0 and pattern table 0

 JSR CLIP               ; Call CLIP to see if the new line segment needs to be
                        ; clipped to fit on-screen, returning the clipped line's
                        ; end-points in (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2)

 BCS BL5                ; If the C flag is set then the line is not visible on
                        ; screen anyway, so jump to BL5, to avoid drawing and
                        ; storing this line

 LDA SWAP               ; If SWAP = 0, then we didn't have to swap the line
 BEQ BL9                ; coordinates around during the clipping process, so
                        ; jump to BL9 to skip the following swap

 LDA X1                 ; Otherwise the coordinates were swapped by the call to
 LDY X2                 ; LL145 above, so we swap (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2) back
 STA X2                 ; again
 STY X1
 LDA Y1
 LDY Y2
 STA Y2
 STY Y1

.BL9

 JSR LOIN               ; Draw a line from (X1, Y1) to (X2, Y2)

.BL5

 LDA K6                 ; Copy the data for this step point from K6(3 2 1 0)
 STA K5                 ; into K5(3 2 1 0), for use in the next call to BLINE:
 LDA K6+1               ;
 STA K5+1               ;   * K5(1 0) = screen x-coordinate of this point
 LDA K6+2               ;
 STA K5+2               ;   * K5(3 2) = screen y-coordinate of this point
 LDA K6+3               ;
 STA K5+3               ; They now become the "previous point" in the next call

 LDA CNT                ; Set CNT = CNT + STP
 CLC
 ADC STP
 STA CNT

 RTS                    ; Return from the subroutine