Sprite (computer graphics)

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Tank and rocket sprites from Broforce

In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. Originally, the term sprite referred to fixed-sized objects composited together, by hardware, with a background. [1] Use of the term has since become more general.

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Systems with hardware sprites include arcade video games of the 1970s and 1980s; game consoles including as the Atari VCS (1977), ColecoVision (1982), Famicom (1983), Genesis/Mega Drive (1988); and home computers such as the TI-99/4 (1979), Atari 8-bit computers (1979), Commodore 64 (1982), MSX (1983), Amiga (1985), and X68000 (1987). Hardware varies in the number of sprites supported, the size and colors of each sprite, and special effects such as scaling or reporting pixel-precise overlap.

Hardware composition of sprites occurs as each scan line is prepared for the video output device, such as a cathode-ray tube, without involvement of the main CPU and without the need for a full-screen frame buffer. [1] Sprites can be positioned or altered by setting attributes used during the hardware composition process. The number of sprites which can be displayed per scan line is often lower than the total number of sprites a system supports. For example, the Texas Instruments TMS9918 chip supports 32 sprites, but only four can appear on the same scan line.

The CPUs in modern computers, video game consoles, and mobile devices are fast enough that bitmaps can be drawn into a frame buffer without special hardware assistance. Beyond that, GPUs can render vast numbers of scaled, rotated, anti-aliased, partially translucent, very high resolution images in parallel with the CPU.

Etymology

According to Karl Guttag, one of two engineers for the 1979 Texas Instruments TMS9918 video display processor, this use of the word sprite came from David Ackley, a manager at TI. [2] It was also used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. [3] The term was derived from the fact that sprites "float" on top of the background image without overwriting it, much like a ghost or mythological sprite.

Some hardware manufacturers used different terms, especially before sprite became common:

Player/Missile Graphics was a term used by Atari, Inc. for hardware sprites in the Atari 8-bit computers (1979) and Atari 5200 console (1982). [4] The term reflects the use for both characters ("players") and smaller associated objects ("missiles") that share the same color. The earlier Atari Video Computer System and some Atari arcade games used player, missile, and ball.

Stamp was used in some arcade hardware in the early 1980s, including Ms. Pac-Man . [5]

Movable Object Block, or MOB, was used in MOS Technology's graphics chip literature. Commodore, the main user of MOS chips and the owner of MOS for most of the chip maker's lifetime, instead used the term sprite for the Commodore 64.

OBJs (short for objects) is used in the developer manuals for the NES, Super NES, and Game Boy. The region of video RAM used to store sprite attributes and coordinates is called OAM (Object Attribute Memory). This also applies to the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.

History

Arcade video games

The use of sprites originated with arcade video games. Nolan Bushnell came up with the original concept when he developed the first arcade video game, Computer Space (1971). Technical limitations made it difficult to adapt the early mainframe game Spacewar! (1962), which performed an entire screen refresh for every little movement, so he came up with a solution to the problem: controlling each individual game element with a dedicated transistor. The rockets were essentially hardwired bitmaps that moved around the screen independently of the background, an important innovation for producing screen images more efficiently and providing the basis for sprite graphics. [6]

The earliest video games to represent player characters as human player sprites were arcade sports video games, beginning with Taito's TV Basketball , [7] [8] [9] released in April 1974 and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for release in North America. [10] Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, he wanted to move beyond simple Pong -style rectangles to character graphics, by rearranging the rectangle shapes into objects that look like basketball players and basketball hoops. [11] [12] Ramtek released another sports video game in October 1974, Baseball, [10] which similarly displayed human-like characters. [13]

The Namco Galaxian arcade system board, for the 1979 arcade game Galaxian , displays animated, multi-colored sprites over a scrolling background. [14] It became the basis for Nintendo's Radar Scope and Donkey Kong arcade hardware and home consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System. [15] According to Steve Golson from General Computer Corporation, the term "stamp" was used instead of "sprite" at the time. [5]

Home systems

Signetics devised the first chips capable of generating sprite graphics (referred to as objects by Signetics) for home systems. The Signetics 2636 video processors were first used in the 1978 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System and later in the 1979 Elektor TV Games Computer.

The Atari VCS, released in 1977, has a hardware sprite implementation where five graphical objects can be moved independently of the game playfield. The term sprite was not in use at the time. The VCS's sprites are called movable objects in the programming manual, further identified as two players, two missiles, and one ball. [16] These each consist of a single row of pixels that are displayed on a scan line. To produce a two-dimensional shape, the sprite's single-row bitmap is altered by software from one scan line to the next.

The 1979 Atari 400 and 800 home computers have similar, but more elaborate, circuitry capable of moving eight single-color objects per scan line: four 8-bit wide players and four 2-bit wide missiles. Each is the full height of the display—a long, thin strip. DMA from a table in memory automatically sets the graphics pattern registers for each scan line. Hardware registers control the horizontal position of each player and missile. Vertical motion is achieved by moving the bitmap data within a player or missile's strip. The feature was called player/missile graphics by Atari.

Texas Instruments developed the TMS9918 chip with sprite support for its 1979 TI-99/4 home computer. An updated version is used in the 1981 TI-99/4A.

In 2.5D and 3D games

Player interactions with sprites in a 2.5D game Anarch short gameplay.gif
Player interactions with sprites in a 2.5D game

Sprites remained popular with the rise of 2.5D games (those which recreate a 3D game space from a 2D map) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A technique called billboarding allows 2.5D games to keep onscreen sprites rotated toward the player view at all times. Some 2.5D games, such as 1993's Doom, allow the same entity to be represented by different sprites depending on its rotation relative to the viewer, furthering the illusion of 3D.

Fully 3D games usually present world objects as 3D models, but sprites are supported in some 3D game engines, such as GoldSrc [17] and Unreal, [18] and may be billboarded or locked to fixed orientations. Sprites remain useful for small details, particle effects, and other applications where the lack of a third dimension is not a major detriment.

Systems with hardware sprites

These are base hardware specs and do not include additional programming techniques, such as using raster interrupts to repurpose sprites mid-frame.

SystemSprite hardwareIntroducedSprites on screenSprites per scan lineMax. texels on line Texture widthTexture heightColorsZoom Rotation Collision detection Transparency Source
Amstrad Plus ASIC 19901616 ?1616152, 4× vertical, 2, 4× horizontalNoNo Color key [19]
Atari 2600 TIA 197755191, 826212, 4, 8× horizontalHorizontal mirroringYesColor key [20]
Atari 8-bit computers GTIA/ANTIC 197988402, 8128, 25612× vertical, 2, 4× horizontalNoYesColor key [21]
Commodore 64 VIC-II 19828896, 19212, 24211, 32× integerNoYesColor key [22]
Amiga (OCS) Denise 19858, can be reused horizontally per 4 pixel incrementsArbitrary, 8 uniqueArbitrary16Arbitrary3, 15Vertical by display listNoYesColor key [23]
Amiga (AGA) Lisa 19928, can be reused horizontally per 2 pixel incrementsArbitrary, 8 uniqueArbitrary16, 32, 64Arbitrary3, 15Vertical by display listNoYesColor key
ColecoVision TMS9918A 1983324648, 168, 1612× integerNoPartialColor key
TI-99/4 & 4A TMS9918 1979324648, 168, 1612× integerNoPartialColor key
Gameduino2011256961,5361616255NoYesYesColor key [24]
Intellivision STIC AY-3-89001979886488,1612, 4, 8× vertical, 2× horizontalHorizontal and vertical mirroringYesColor key [25]
MSX TMS9918A 1983324648, 168, 1612× integerNoPartialColor key [26]
MSX2 Yamaha V9938 19863281288, 168,161, 3, 7, 15 per line2× integerNoPartialColor key
MSX2+ / MSX turbo R Yamaha V9958 19883281288,168,161, 3, 7, 15 per line2× integerNoPartialColor key
Namco Pac-Man
(arcade)		TTL1980669616163NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringNoColor key [27]
TurboGrafx-16 HuC6270A1987641625616, 3216, 32, 6415NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringYesColor key [28]
Namco Galaxian
(arcade)		TTL19797711216163NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringNoColor key [29] [30] [31]
Nintendo Donkey Kong, Radar Scope
(arcade)		19791281625616163IntegerNoYesColor key [32]
Nintendo DS Integrated PPU20041281281,2108, 16, 32, 648, 16, 32, 6465,536 Affine Affine NoColor key, blending [33]
NES/Famicom Ricoh RP2C0x PPU 19836486488, 163NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringPartialColor key [34]
Game Boy Integrated PPU198940108088, 163NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringNoColor key [35]
Game Boy Advance Integrated PPU200112812812108, 16, 32, 648, 16, 32, 6415, 255 Affine Affine NoColor key, blending [36]
Master System,
Game Gear 		YM2602B VDP
(TMS9918-derived)		19856481288, 168, 16152× integer, 2× verticalBackground tile mirroringYesColor key [37] [38]
Genesis / Mega Drive YM7101 VDP
(SMS VDP-derived)		198880203208, 16, 24, 328, 16, 24, 3215NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringYesColor key [39] [40]
Sega OutRun (arcade)198612812816008 to 5128 to 25615 Anisotropic Horizontal and vertical mirroringYesAlpha [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47]
X68000 Cynthia jr. (original), Cynthia (later models)1987128325121616152× integerHorizontal and vertical mirroringPartialColor key [48] [49] [50]
Neo Geo LSPC2-A219903849615361616 to 51215Sprite shrinkingHorizontal and vertical mirroringPartialColor key [51] [52] [53]
Super NES / Super Famicom S-PPU1, S-PPU21990128342568, 16, 32, 648, 16, 32, 6415NoHorizontal and vertical mirroringNoColor key, averaging [54]
SystemSprite hardwareIntroducedSprites on screenSprites on lineMax. texels on line Texture widthTexture heightColorsHardware zoom Rotation Collision detection Transparency Source

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