Tile map is a technique of re-using small graphic pieces, tiles, over and over again to shape the game field.
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Tiled Map Editor - get a GID listing?
I have about 16 tiles in my spritesheet that I'm using for Tiled, and I'm trying to build a GID map so I can properly convert them in my game. I'm using the JSON format for my map, if that helps.
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How can I support objects larger than a single tile in a 2D tile engine?
I´m currently working on a 2D Engine containing an isometric tile map. It´s running quite well but I'm not sure if I´ve chosen the best approach for that kind of engine.
To give you an idea what I´m ...
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Generating tile map
I am programming a tile based game and I have some basic tiles (grass, dirt, etc..), but I can't figure out how to make good random map generation, because when I do some really random selection, if ...
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Drawing and scrolling very large zoomed tilemaps
I've been working on my game editor and doing some performance tests. In the meantime I realized that my editors performance goes significant down if I draw a large map and zoom it.
100% zoom = 112 ...
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convert image to spritesheet of tiles for isometric map?
is there a way to convert an isometric image (like the first image) to a spritesheet (like the second image), in order to place each image on the isometric map with the code?
The map looks like the ...
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Electronic circuit simulator four-way flood-filling issues
I've made an electronic circuit board simulator which has simply 3 types of tiles: wires, power sources, and inverters. Wires connect to anything they touch, other than the sides of inverters; ...
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How to remove seams from a tile map in 3D?
I am using my OpenGL custom engine to render a tilemap made with Tiled, using a well spread tileset from the web. There is nothing fancy going on. I load the TMX file from Tiled and generate vertex ...
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Moving a tiled map in a jframe
I rendered a tiled map, with the help of slick2d, in my JFrame in Java. I can move my main character, but it is just that the character itself moves. I would like to do it that, if the player moves, ...
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How would I go about updating my electronic circuit simulator's 'electricity'?
I have made an application which allows the user to place down wires, power sources, and inverters on a virtual circuit board. All connections between tiles are automatic, as shown here:
As you ...
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XNA - Finding boundaries in isometric tilemap
I have an issue with my 2D isometric engine. I'm using my own 2D camera class which works with matrices and need to find the tilemaps boundaries so the user always sees the map.
Currently my map size ...
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What design pattern should I employ for validating character movement?
I'm developing a RPG in Java and have a Map class, which will contain all the MapObjects (the Player, Enemies, Walls, etc.):
Map.java
public class Map {
private int width;
private int height;
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Why does my player stop when stepping onto a new tile?
Me and my friend are creating a game from scratch. He is in charge of art design and I am in charge of coding. I have done well so far with the code, but I have a collision detection problem when the ...
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How do I efficiently display image tiles in Unity 4.3 free
I previously wrote a TileEngine with SFML that I would like to port to Unity3D 4.3, but have not found a way to draw a tile on the screen programmatically in Unity.
All I am looking for something ...
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Box2D and randomly generated tilemaps
I am making a 2D Terraria-style sidescrolling game. I want to use box2d for the physics. However, I am using tilemaps for the maps, and I do not know of a processor-efficient way to use Box2D bodies ...
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Creating a tilemap region of clickable buildings in cocos2d
How do you turn a tilemap (produced by TileD) for cocos2d where I can click on individual items and get a callback?
Is it just a case of converting captured touch and finding out where it is on the ...
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LibGDX keep camera within bounds of TiledMap
I have a simple TiledMap which I can render fine. I have a player hopping (with Box2D) around and my camera follows the player around:
cam.position.set(
player.position().x * Game.PPM + ...
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Seamless tilemap rendering (borderless adjacent images)
I have a 2D game engine that draws tilemaps by drawing tiles from a tileset image. Because by default OpenGL can only wrap the entire texture (GL_REPEAT), and not just part of it, each tile is split ...
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Structure gameobjects and call events
I'm working on a 2D tile based game in which the player interacts with other game objects (chests, AI, Doors, Houses etc...). The entire map will be stored in a file which I can read. When loading the ...
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Gaps appearing between Sprites when scaling the stage
I'm learning to use createjs using this game level to-be as a sandbox: http://www.mboyeman.com/dashingdog/
The level is composed of a single background image and 64X64pixel ...
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Adapting tilemap algorithm to support isometric tilemap
I'm using Phaser to build an isometric game. The framework doesn't have support for isometric tilemaps yet, so I'm starting to write a PR for it to support.
What I currently have, loading an ...
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Collision in Tiled Map - LibGDX
I have collision code that deals with left or right or top or bottom. I am using Tiled Map with LibGDX.
Question is: How do I detect collision with other cells by all 4 sides, and not specifically ...
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Best visual way to build a “near isometric” 2D view
I'm working hard in a 2D platform game, as far as I got is a standard 2D view (only x and y are visible)
But I want to change the perspective so I can see the floor also.
But the MapBuilder I ...
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Detect obstacles in path on a tile-based map
I'm creating a 2d game with a tile-based map, but smooth movement. I currently use A* in combination with some other tricks for pathfinding, and one issue what I've been dealing with is getting the ...
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Aspect ratio in LibGdx
I'm learning LibGdx and I need some help with the camera.
Let's see, I'm making a Chu Chu Rocket! clon to start. I've loaded a TiledMap (10x10), and I've created an OrthographicCamera to show the ...
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Tile System with moving Platforms
I am using a tile based system where the level is stored in a char:
char[,] Level2 = {{'.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.','.'},
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(LibGDX) Changing Origin of Box2D World relative to TiledMap (or Vice Versa)
I'm playing around with Box2D and TiledMaps and I've come across this minor annoyance.
As you can see, both Box2D and TiledMap render at the center of the screen. This forces me to compensate by ...
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Should I use tiles in a snake game? [closed]
I'm building a simple snake game, which is my first game ever. I'm using LibGDX, which is Java-based.
I've looked at the Tiled Map Editor, but I don't know if it is necessary in a simple game like ...
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Tile map propagating fire
I have a Model(I use the MVC pattern), that holds an 2D Array with Tile objects.
A tile object have a member, whether it burns or not, a member how long it takes until the neighboring tiles get fire ...
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Working with tiledata of different sizes [duplicate]
I recently bought an asset for my game, basically a tilesheet, with seperate pngs as well, but where as previously I've created tilemaps out of identically sized tiles these are all in varying sizes ...
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HTML5 - Dynamic canvas grid for scrolling a big map
I've been working on different scrolling algorithms for my JS-based game. My main problem is that I need to draw a huge map and also have it scroll smoothly. I've made a few attempts and while they're ...
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XNA 2D Tile Map zooming to arbitrary point [duplicate]
I'm working on a game in XNA with a 2D tilemap as the playfield. I'm using a spritebatch with a transformation matrix to provide movement and scaling of the playfield. I'm trying to add a zoom ...
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Tile map collision and object handling
I want to program a game.
In this game there is a tile map and objects that interact with it and them self.
For that I made first a TileMap class, in it is only the data of the tile map.
Its a very ...
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Libgdx TileMap size limitations
I have a tmx file of 800*18 size.. It is working but there is some problem like sometimes game is slow or the player jumps too much high or the collision from ground doesn't happen properly and player ...
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Save “Explored Area” to SQL Database
For a strategy game, the area "already explored" has to be saved to a DB, so that the player can (upon resuming his game) see where he has already been.
The game will be a mmo-game, so i have to ...
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Representing multi-tile objects in a tilemap
I'm building an isometric tiled game, where the terrain and objects are represented by a 2-dimensional array of lists. Depth of objects on the map is derived from the tile (and a per-tile sorting ...
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How can I randomly generate 2D tile-based side-scroller terrain?
I want to randomly generate a map for a 2D sidescroller game using the following tileset:
I have found a few great articles on the bitmasking process, for example:
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Collision detection via adjacent tiles - sprite too big
I have managed to create a collision detection system for my tile-based jump'n'run game (written in C++/SFML), where I check on each update what values the surrounding tiles of the player contain and ...
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Shadow wall sight problems
i used this tutorial https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki/2D-Pixel-Perfect-Shadows to make my shadows. I think its a pretty nice and easy method.
I render all my shadow in a Framebuffer and ...
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Calculate tile ID on a Reus style world with canvas context.arc()
I need a bit of math help for my game.
I'm using Javascript and the Canvas tag to create a circular world, think God Finger, and Reus. The current version of my game is here: ...
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How do you divide the screen into tiles? [closed]
I have been reading alot on tile-based game programming but i could not find a satisfying answer to this question.
I want to know how i can divide the screen into tiles of a size like 32?
I am doing ...
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updating 2d array to contain chunk of larger 2d array - for 2d tile map
What i need help with is how can i get a chunk of a large 2d char array and update it so i am only drawing enough tiles to cover the screen?
Currently, i load all the chars from a text file and store ...
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Simple collision detection implementation [closed]
I'm making a game with C++ where the program extracts the lines out of an image (via openCV), stores them in an std::vector< std::vector< int > > and the builds a tile map out of it which is ...
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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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How can I convert a Tiled level array to a 2D array?
For the code in my game, I want a 2D array which represents the map.
I created an actual map with Tiled but it produces a 1D array. Is there any way to convert it into my desired format wothout ...
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limits of tiles on tilemap, for mobile devices?
how many tiles are we allowed to add on a Tile map, using softwares like Tiled , to target mobile devices? Some devices cannot load a texture that exceeds 2048x2048, would you know how a tilemap works ...
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Eclipse loading old tmxtiledmap instead of fresh one [closed]
I am facing a weird issue. I created tiled map using Tiled Editor. Used it in my simple andengine project to test loading of tiledmap correctly. It did load successfully. After that, I made changes to ...
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How can I distribute powerups “fairly”? [closed]
I'm implementing a Bomberman-esque game in which players try to eliminate each other on a square tile-based arena. I'm currently implementing powerups that give the player who collected them a bonus ...
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How would you draw a tile map with perspective?
I want the maps in the game I'm working (in Java) to be draw with perspective just to sugar coat it, but I'm not sure how that can be done. If anyone has an article about the math behind it or ...
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Java Tilemap Collision
I have tilemaps represented by values from 0 to 4. How can I make the player collide with tiles represented by 3 and stop the player from passing through it ? Here is my code for the player and ...
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Simple 2d tile based lighting in xna
I am currently trying to implement simple lighting into my game. My world is represented in a 2d array of numbers, each number being a certain tile. I am changing the color parameter in the ...
