Chapter 3. The Graphics Subsystem

General stuff

The graphics in SCI are generated using four resource types:

• Pic resources for background pictures

• View resources for images

• Font resources for drawing text

• Cursor resources for displaying the mouse pointer
   

Those resources are drawn on three distinct maps:

• The visual map, used for displaying the actual pictures the player sees

• The priority map, which keeps information about how the depth of the screen

• The control map, which contains special information