draw_background

Prototypevoid draw_background(void)

draw_background() redraws the background (tiles and background sprites), leaving all active sprites intact. This is useful to restore a screen after a fill_screen() or similar effect that draws over the background. Note that all active sprites drawn to the background (dead bodies, etc.) will be missing.

This command can be used in place of draw_screen() if no sprites are messed up by whatever special effect causes the need to refresh the background. Choose between draw_screen() and draw_background() based on whether scripts should be re-run: draw_screen() runs the main procedures of the map's "base" script and all the sprites' attached scripts, while draw_background() causes no attached scripts to be re-run.