Tile map is a technique of re-using small graphic pieces, tiles, over and over again to shape the game field.
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Random map generation
I'm starting/started a 2D tilemap RPG game in Java and I want to implement random map generation. I have a list of different tiles, (dirt/sand/stone/grass/gravel etc) along with water tiles and path ...
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Random seed function for map generation?
I am looking for a function to generate a random tile-based map as the visual boundaries of the map change (by going through the map). I want the map to be infinitely large, and have maze-like ...
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Difference between “staggered” isometric and “normal” isometric tilemaps?
The Tiled Map Editor v0.9 recently added support for staggered tilemaps in addition to its usual isometric tilemap support.
What are the exact technical differences between these two types of ...
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How can I create a random “world” in a tile engine?
I am designing a game that is working on a classic tile engine, but whose world is generated randomly. Are there existing games or algorithms that do this?
The procedural generation algorithms I have ...
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Did old games like Golden Axe or Street or Rage use tilemaps? [closed]
I am wondering if old games like Golden Axe (genesis) or street of Rage (genesis) used tilemaps or background bitmaps for the levels.
I could not find any resource that explain this and searching ...
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Best Method to Simulate Height in a Tiled Top-Down Game
What is the best method to simulate height for a top-down tiled 2D game? One way I thought was to make tiles which are supposed to be higher brighter, but I was wondering if there was a standard or ...
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Tile map/terrain implementation with differing heights of neighbouring tiles
Ahoy!
I'm looking for some information about tile maps, or rather, what a specific type of tile map is called.
I'm interested in the kind of implementation used in rollercoaster tycoon, or the ...
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isometric drawing order with larger than single tile images - drawing order algorithm?
I have an isometric map over which I place various images. Most images will fit over a single tile, but some images are slightly larger. For example, I have a bed of size 2x3 tiles.
This creates a ...
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Elegant autotiling
I'm looking for information about how people implement autotiling in their tile-based games. So far I have always improvised it with a bunch of hardcoded "if ... else ..." statements, and now I ...
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Choose tile based on adjacent tiles
I am working on a tiled map editor, and I need to choose tiles automatically, based on the adjacent tiles. For example, when placing a road tile, next to another road tile, the two need to be oriented ...
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Collision Detection, player correction
I am having some problems with collision detection, I have 2 types of objects excluding the player. Tiles and what I call MapObjects. The tiles are all 16x16, where the MapObjects can be any size, but ...
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Find nearest tile of type x
I currently have an array of tiles which makes up the tilemap (stored as an int array) and I want an NPC to be able to move itself to the nearest tile of type X (ie find the nearest tree and chop it ...
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XNA C# Platformer - physics engine or tile based?
I would like to get some opinions on whether i should develop my game using a physics engine (farseer physics seems to be the best option) or follow the traditional tile-based method.
Quick ...
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Tilemaps in a Entity System Framework?
I have been reading up on Entity System Frameworks specifically Artemis. I am trying to decide if it is right for me. I strictly work on tile based 2d pixel art games, and I don’t think they will ever ...
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3D terrain map with Hexagon Grids
I'm working on a hobby project (I'm a web/backend developer by day) and I want to create a 3D Tile (terrain) engine. I'm using XNA, but I can use MonoGame, OpenGL, or straight DirectX, so the answer ...
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Is it possible to map mouse coordinates to isometric tiles with this coordinate system?
I'm trying to implement mouse interaction in a 2D isometric game, but I'm not sure if it's possible given the coordinate system used for tile maps in the game.
I've read some helpful things like ...
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Road / river generation on 2d grid map
This is a newbie question, but here it goes:
My map is a 2d grid, and I want to generate roads and rivers. The route from the starting to ending point must not be the optimal route in number of ...
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Isometric tile map format
I've just knocked up a fairly basic isometric tile based game and I'm looking for the best way to store the level data.
Each tile coordinate is assigned one or more numbers that correspond to a tile ...
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3D models on 2D tilemap perspective when scrolling
I am creating a small top-down game, where the player traverses a 2D tilemap, with an illusion of depth provided by 3D models for things like buildings or trees.
Having gotten to the point where I ...
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Working principle of an RPG map
I am currently thinking of building a basic browser-based 2D(that would eventually become 2.5D) RPG. I have planned everything and I think that would be able to accomplish the current goals, but it ...
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Isometric Screen View to World View
I am having trouble working out the math to transform the screen coordinates to the Grid coordinates.
The code below is how far I have got but it is totally wrong any help or resources to fix this ...
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Labeling Areas on a map
I've been wondering how you would go about labeling an area on a 2D tile map. What I'd like to do is associate tiles with an area i.e Forest Area, Desert Area, etc.
Keep in mind this is an idea, so ...
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Circle-Rectangle collision in a tile map game
I am making a 2D tile map based putt-putt game.
I have collision detection working between the ball and the walls of the map, although when the ball collides at the meeting point between 2 tiles I ...
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More Efficient Data Structure for Large Layered Tile Map
It seems like the popular method is to break the map up into regions and load them as needed, my problem is that in my game there are many AI entities other than the player out performing actions in ...
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Change the tilemap shown on stage in Flixel
I am building a simple platformer using Flixel, beginning with the source code from Flixel creator's EZPlatformer . I would like to adjust the level's tilemap when the player sprite enters/overlaps ...
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Isometric Tile maps in Cocos2d-x
Is there an specific isometric tile map handler in cocos2d-x? I can't find any.
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Canvas tile grid, hover effects, single tilesheet, etc
I'm currently in the process of building both the client and server side of an HTML5, canvas, and WebSocket game.
This is what I have thus far for the client: http://jsfiddle.net/dDmTf/20/
Current ...
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Storing large layered tilemap
My game consists largely of "sea" tiles with sections of tiles that form "islands". The sea tiles are all exactly the time.
The map itself is pretty large and only going to get larger. I'm trying to ...
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Looking for an elegant way to represent fixed parts of a randomly generated level map
I'm coding from scratch a small experimental game on a medium-sized random rectangular square tile map. (Say, a map of a dungeon.)
There are several types of tiles (for example: floor, wall, monster, ...
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Effecient tilemap rendering
I have done mostly tile based games, but never really bothered with optimization. I always just rendered all the tiles that convered the viewport.
I am currently working on platformer for a mobile ...
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Move a 2D sprite into an irregular terrain
With a tile based engine, in my knowledge, is not possible to move a sprite into an irregular terrain. So which are the techniques to use for implementing that?
Maybe an hexagonal tile based engine?
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Hide collision layer in libgdx with TiledMap?
I'm making a 2D game with libgdx, and I'm using its TileMapRenderer to render my map which I have made in the map editor Tiled. In Tiled I have a dedicated collision layer. However, I can't figure out ...
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Checking if an object is inside bounds of an isometric chunk
How would I check if an object is inside the bounds of an isometric chunk? for example I have a player and I want to check if its inside the bounds of this isometric chunk.
I draw the isometric ...
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What article discusses weightmaps for ai control?
A while back, I read an article on using weightmaps to control ai movement, particularly in an RTS environment. I can't find the article again, so perhaps someone here read it? I'm not asking for a ...
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2D side scroller - How to implement X/Y movement?
I'm currently writing a small 2D, side-scroller-ish kind of game.
I have a simple camera that follows the player around and the physics are ready.
I'm using 32x32 tiles that build out the world, ...
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Calculating the number of tiles shown on an isometric map
I'm currently changing an existing computer game from a top-down view to an isometric view. The map consists of an infinite number of tiles. Only the tiles which are currently visible in the players ...
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Creating and connecting rooms for a roguelike
I'm creating a Roguelike and I'm having constant troubles with map generation, it's just something I have a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around.
I currently have my map as a 50x50 square of ...
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A* pathfinding for an isometric map
I am making an isometric tower defense game in XNA and trying to implement the A* pathfinding algorithms for my enemy AI. I am quite new to programming, especially AI and pathfinding, so please excuse ...
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How to extend Tiled and Cocos2d to create an Isometric map that supports elevation
I've been looking and looking and looking, and I cannot seem to find a solution out there for making a game that uses cocos2d and Tiled to make an isometric map that supports elevation.
I am not ...
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Torque2D, Class vs Datablock
I'm scripting my first game with Torque2D and have not fully understood the difference between "Class" and Datablock.
To me it seems like Datablock is similar to a struct in C/C++ or a Record in ...
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Units of measurement in a tile world
I've started to make a 2D sidescroller, the camera and world rendering works as I expect, but now comes the physics part of world.
What I need is that one tile in x or direction should correspond to ...
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Tile map collision is not working properly
I am having problems setting collision between my sprite and the tiles.
I have only done the code for colision for moving upwards but some places on the map it moves up and some places it doesn't.
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Rending 2D Tile World (With Player In The Middle)
What I have at the moment is a series of data structures I'm using, and I would like to render the world onto the screen (just the visible parts).
I've actually already done this several times (lots ...
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Slick2D Tile Based 'Fog of War' Blurring Problem
I'm working on my first Java Game and I have run into a little problem I'm hoping to get some help with. I'm using Slick2D displaying a tile based map, and I'd like to know how I can created a ...
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Question About Scrolling A Tilemap In C++/SDL/OpenGL
I been working with scrolling this week but I recently encounter a problem that I don't understand why it's happening.
In a 2D scroller I want to scroll a tilemap pixel per pixel which gives a smooth ...
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[2D] Finding largest possible straight lines around body
I've got a 2D-map, largely consisting of rectangular tiles, but with some none-rectangular objects mixed in as well (tilted lines on corners for example).
Take this image as an example:
I now ...
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How do I eliminate black bar artifacts in AndEngine/TMX plugin?
I used AndEngine gles1 along with the tmx plugin to generate my background maps. The image width is not fit to my virtual device, so I increased the tmx image size. Here is my code for the camera ...
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Flixel - Animated Tilemaps
I am using Flixel 2.55 and I am trying to animate a tilemap. I found this piece of code that apparently enables the use of sprites as tiles.
From what I understand, this loops over the tilemap's ...
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How can I create a flexible system for tiling a 2D RPG map?
Using libgdx here. I've just finished learning some of the basics of creating a 2D environment and using an OrthographicCamera to view it. The tutorials I went through, however, hardcoded their ...
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Implmenting RLE into a tilemap or how to create a large 3D array?
Currently I've been using a 3D array for my tiles in a 2D world but the 3D side comes in when moving down into caves and whatnot. Now this is not memory efficient and I switched over to a 2D array and ...
