So you recommend this:
Tiles not background picture
Tile paint instead of sprites
Highlighting/Dehighlighting using the PaintTile Event of the
spritesurface
(and even if this is done to multiple adjoining tiles)
Yes?
Mark
On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:50 PM, joe at strout dot net wrote:
On Jan 22, 2007, at 19:35 UTC, Mark Barnett wrote:
What is a smarter approach to have the map applied to the
SpriteSurface, as a map or as spritewrappers for each of the 80+ x
80+ map.
I'd just draw the map parts in the PaintTile event, or if you prefer,
compose it all into a big picture and set that as the background.
I would like to animate these surfaces, is that recommended
or not?
Well, certainly not on every frame, since that would require redrawing
the entire screen on every frame. If you're going to do that, the
SpriteSurface isn't gaining you anything, and you might as well draw it
yourself in a Canvas. But you won't get a very high framerate that
way. (To get a high framerate for a display like that would require
hardware acceleration, e.g. using a RB3DSpace instead of a
SpriteSurface.)
But if you are only animating some of the map tiles, or only changing
their images every now and then, then this would be fine.
And if it is a map background, how would I be able to tell
the player "This is your land" or "This is NOT you land" by
highlighting groups of these pieces?
Well, you'd call PaintTile with the coordinates of the background tiles
that need to be refreshed, and then in your PaintTile event, draw them
with the highlighting.
HTH,
- Joe
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On Jan 23, 2007, at 03:40 UTC, Mark Barnett wrote:
So you recommend this:
Tiles not background picture
Tile paint instead of sprites
Highlighting/Dehighlighting using the PaintTile Event of the
spritesurface
(and even if this is done to multiple adjoining tiles)
Yes?
Yes.
Best,
- Joe
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