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How to store "chunks" of tiles or How to make my implementation work
I asked a previous question about the loading and unload of chunk data and people noted that my way of storing chunks is weird and I was wondering how I would go about doing it properly. @Byte56 ...
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Loading and unloading "chunks" of tiles in a 2d tile engine with 2d camera
I am making a 2d tile based game in C# and XNA 4.0. I am having trouble loading and unloading "chunks" of tiles(blocks). The whole world is randomly generated and is infinate on both axis. How would I ...
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How can I achieve smooth animation of sprites between discrete tiles?
I'm currently learning game development with C# and XNA and my current assignment is to create a Pac-Man clone.
The game is partially tile based, which means that the level itself is built out of an ...
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tiled map - changing textures? (XNA HLSL)
I have successfully created a tiled map of various textures. Right now, i had a Vector4 in my own custom Vertex declaration deciding what texture each of the tiles should be. This is working perfectly....
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Rendering tiles on 3/4 perspective
Using a 3/4th perspective, I'm trying to create a way to render cliffs where nothing is overlapped, and it creates an accurate representation of the elevation.
This is a rough mockup of how it might ...
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What would be the best way to find an open space in a level?
I'm working on a 2D game where you use paint to add tiles to a level and right now I'm working to add warp tiles. I have it set up so certain direction-oriented paints use two points (a start and end) ...
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How do i get my tilemap to move at the same speed as my character
I have a little problem in my solution, i'm trying to make a pretty big map for the players to walk around in.
I decided to use a tile-engine, but when I move my character it moves faster than my ...
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Arrays for a heightmap tile-based map
I'm making a game using in C# and Javascript that uses a map which has tiles, corners and borders. Here's a graphical representation:
I've managed to store tiles and corners in memory but I'm having ...
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Designing a flexible tile-based engine
I'm trying to create a flexible tile-based game engine to make all sorts of non-realtime puzzle games, just as Bejeweled, Civilization, Sokoban, and so on.
The first approach I had was to have a 2D ...
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Tile-based 2D collision detection problems
I'm trying to follow this tutorial http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/tut05.html to implement real-time collisions in a tile-based world.
I find the center coordinates of my entities thanks to these ...
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