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Collision checking problem on a Tiled map
I'm working on a pacman styled dungeon crawler, using the free oryx sprites. I've created the map using Tiled, separating the floor, walls and treasure in three different layers. After importing the ...
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Saving a list of points into a text file
I recently posted a question about this, but was not really sure where to go. I've gotten some progress, and have generated some simple noise here:
http://pastie.org/5408655
That works well enough ...
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TileMapRenderer in libGDX not drawing anything
So I followed the tutorial on the libGDX wiki to draw Tiled maps but it doesn't seem to render anything.
Here's how I setup my OrthographicCamera and load the map:
camera = new ...
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Get coordinates of arraylist
Here's my map class:
public class map{ public static final int CLEAR = 0;
public static final ArrayList<Integer> STONE = new ArrayList<Integer>();
public static final int GRASS = 2;
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(int) Math.floor(x / TILESIZE) or just (int) (x / TILESIZE)
I have a Array that stores my map data and my Tiles are 64X64. Sometimes I need to convert from pixels to units of tiles. So I was doing:
int x
int y
public void myFunction()
{
getTile((int) ...
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Efficient way to render tile-based map in Java
Some time ago I posted here because I was having some memory issues with a game I'm working on. That has been pretty much solved thanks to some suggestions here, so I decided to come back with another ...
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Java: Tile-based Collision Detection with Rectangles
There are a few tile-based collision detection questions out there, but none seemed to suit my need.
I guess I really would like to know why this method for collision detection isn't working.
It ...
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Compressing 2D level data
So, I'm developing a 2D, tile based game and a map maker thingy - all in Java.
The problem is that recently I've been having some memory issues when about 4 maps are loaded. Each one of these maps ...
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Tile engine Texture not updating when numbers in array change
I draw my map from a txt file. I am using java with slick2d library. When I print the array the number changes in the array, but the texture doesn't change.
public class Tiles {
public Image[] tiles ...
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Java - Finding distance between player and tile in array
What is the best way performance wise to do this? When I click a tile I want it to get the distance and if I am close enough I can interact with the tile. One way would be to find the tile by doing ...
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Java - 2d Array Tile Map Collision
How would I go about making certain tiles in my array collide with my player? Like say I want every number 2 in the array to collide. I am reading my array from a txt file if that matters and I am ...
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For the handling of buildings on a tile-based strategy game, what aproach should I use?
On a tile-based game of the strategy genre, which allows the player to place buildings over the terrain tiles, there are multiple approaches that can be taken for handling such situation.
The ones ...
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Drawing hexagonal grid on Android
I'm trying to draw a hexagon grid in my Android application. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here so I'm looking for some frameworks/libraries or just some basic ideas about how should one do this. ...
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How can I create tiles that scale to multiple resolutions?
I am trying to create a multiplayer version of the popular Flash game N in Java. However, I'm not sure how to create a tileset that will scale up. Are the tiles for N pre-drawn or are they defined ...
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Increasing the probability for similar tiles to generate next to each other
I'm working on a tile map system, which insofar looks like this (green is grass, air is white, stone is grey, and blue is water):
It uses a simple random number generator so that there's a 45% ...
