Timeline for Getting positions of static entities in a Tiled Map
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| Jul 25, 2015 at 5:10 | vote | accept | Panda | ||
| Jul 25, 2015 at 5:08 | comment | added | Madmenyo | No problem, there are a lot of technical terms. I'm programming for more then a decade now and still mess up the wording sometimes :). I made an edit of my post to make it even clearer. | |
| Jul 25, 2015 at 5:07 | history | edited | Madmenyo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 25, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | Panda | Alright, that makes sense. Sorry for the bad wording again, I feel like I messed this up a bit with how I worded it :P | |
| Jul 25, 2015 at 5:06 | history | edited | Madmenyo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 25, 2015 at 4:48 | comment | added | Madmenyo | Depends on what you want really. It's less scalable, you can have the int refer to anything you want but if you want a lot of specific entity to have different properties you end up with a big dictionary. A entity is such a broad discription you are probably better off ditching it. It's not very efficient way either, since for each int you have to iterate a list of all types. Much more efficient is a separate class and store those object in a array. Your method does however take less memory and less space when you want to store your map. | |
| Jul 25, 2015 at 4:33 | comment | added | Panda | Sorry for the strange wording, I couldn't come up with a better way to put it. Yes, I have an array of ints where each int represents an entity. My question is essentially if I should instead ditch the representation way of it and directly store the objects directly like you have shown in your example. | |
| Jul 25, 2015 at 4:28 | comment | added | Madmenyo |
It's not clear to me what you mean by instance of each static object. A object cannot be static. A class can have the static keyword but this would never belong to the object you create from the class. So I am not sure what you exactly want. Do you just have int[][] map = new int[width][height] where the int refers to the type of entity? You need to link that int somewhere to something, I mean you could link it to a texture but you can also link it to another object. You can also populate the array with objects you actually need like Tile[][] tileMap = new Tile[width][height].
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 19:14 | comment | added | Panda | However there is only one instance of each static entity object. Adding a position field to the object itself won't work because it will just be the position of the entity that was created last. I think dnk drone.vs.drones may be correct that I cannot easily do what I want. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | Madmenyo | You ad a x and y field to the class of the object you are instanciating. Or add a object of the class I just presented. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 17:15 | comment | added | Panda | I must be misunderstanding you. How can I add the position of the entity to the actual object if there is only one instance of the object? | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 10:44 | history | edited | Madmenyo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 10:34 | history | answered | Madmenyo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |