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How to achieve selection of a tile from a tile sheet based on an ID?
Let's say I have a tile sheet that contains 8 sprites per sheet. Each sprite is a tile of 30x30.
I wrote my own custom map parser/map loader however I'm having trouble extracting a certain tile ...
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Determine how to display a tile based on surrounding tiles [duplicate]
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Choose tile based on adjacent tiles
I have a game engine which generates maps randomly, set on a 2d grid which is composed of 34px square graphical tiles.
These tiles ...
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SDL: How would I add tile layers with my area class as a singleton?
I´m trying to wrap my head around how to get this done, if at all possible. So basically I have a Area class, Map class and Tile class. My Area class is a singleton, and this is causing some ...
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How to use caching to increase render performance?
First of all I am going to cover the basic design of my 2d tile-based engine written with SDL in C++, then I will point out what I am up to and where I need some hints.
Concept of my engine
My ...
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How to prevent fleeing monster from backing himself into a dead end?
I've been building a rogue-like for more than a year now, and so far I've only ever implemented very simple monster behaviour - such as moving toward the player when he's in the line of sight, and ...
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Making walls in tile-based games: what am I missing?
After spending time today to jot down some notes regarding the implementation of walls into my tile-based game, I've suddenly realized it's not going to be as simple as I imagined before. While the ...
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Container classes in tile-based games.
I've recently begun working on a tile-based tactical game, and I have questions regarding a couple of key moments.
Is it feasible to organize the tilemap as an array of containers, which can hold the ...
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Implementing a tile-based game
Which data structure should be best used to store a pile of tiles from which a player can pick a random tile?
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Alternative to 2D array in a tiled-map structure
After searching for a long time, I'm surprised this question was not asked yet. In a 2D, tiled-map game, how do you handle the map ? I'd be glad to have your point of view in any languages, though I'm ...
