Patterns of identical shapes (often squares or hexagons) that have no gaps. They usually represent the playfield in various games.
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Algorithmic error in tile engine? [on hold]
I'm toying with creating a tile-based 2D java game engine. I can render the "local" area without issues(I.E. deciding which local tiles to render). The problem came when I introduced floating point ...
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How can I “grow” regions representing countries in a 2D grid?
My friend started to make a 'country-generator' type of thing. We have some starting points, and we want to 'grow' countries from them randomly until the whole area is filled. What's is an effect ...
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Get Tile Location On Screen (Java Slick and Tiled2D)
I want to create a rectangle around each tile that's blocked value = true. How can I find the X and Y (on screen) coords of the each individual Tile?
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How do I draw tile in a side-on perspective? [closed]
All the tutorials I've found regarding using tiles in game engines refer to games with an isometric or top-down view, much like this:
I want to make a "beat em up"-game, where the view is tilted.
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looking some advice on how to create on touch/click event triggers on TILED map [closed]
I am attempting to create a html5 rpg from scratch for the most part. I am seeking some thoughts on how i would achieve something.
So i managed to parse and render the tilemap from the TILED map ...
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java tile based game :tile lag fix
hi I have a game where it reads a txt file and loads a map 0 represents air and 2 represents dirt I have a class for each tile as well as a tilemap I will show u my code. the problem is it lags like ...
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libgdx get the value of a key
I'm trying to do collision detection (which I have working well) but now I want to use it for a little more. I want to check special circumstances for the collision. Right now I'm checking for ...
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Cell Lighting Propagation Problem
I have in place a cell-based lighting system that works basically like this: (Not my actual code)
//Light moves up
for (int x = 0; x < width; x += 1)
{
for (int y = 0; y < ...
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Using an image instead of a colored rectangle
I recently watched a video on how to do tilemaps in java. He has the tiles as colored rectangles. I want them to be images.
My code:
public void draw(Graphics g){
for(int row = 0; row < ...
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How to get surrounding tiles in a tile array
I've created a tiled map that holds two layers, one for the tile type, and the other for whether it is solid or not. I plan on creating very big maps, and checking every tile seems like it would slow ...
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Collision detection for sloping tiles
I've been looking into adding 'sloping' tiles into my platform game and my first attempt at collision detection with these tiles has produced some promising results (considering it's a first attempt), ...
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What is the definition of “tiles?”
When we talk of tiles, are we strictly talking about images or the underlying data structures?
For example, I read an article which explains that tiles are a data structure that holds your game data. ...
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Reduce render time for a tiled map in ThreeJS
I'm working on a WebGL game using Three.js, its been a few days and I found my first issue, render time on big maps.
The game runs great, there are even some AI mobs that run around randomly like ...
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How would I implement procedurally generated tiles in libgdx?
I'm creating a simple top down Zelda-esque game in libgdx, and I want to implement tile-based dungeons that are procedurally generated, similar to this.
Libgdx does have a class called TiledMap which ...
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Selecting a range of hex tiles within radius of main tile [duplicate]
What im doing is pretty new to me, or at least i think it is, so I'm not really sure of what im looking for. Hopefully someone here knows =-)
Using a grid of hexes I generate, i can hover over any ...
