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Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« on: November 17, 2011, 03:58:50 pm »
I'm looking for a really good tutorial for tile mapping! keep in mind I have never done it before, but I am very interested!
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2011, 04:00:35 pm »
We have a tutorials section on the website that happens to have two tilemapping tutorials on it.

Here you go:

http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=articles;cat=12
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2011, 04:10:53 pm »
can you also direct me to an example program I can look at?
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2011, 08:12:59 am »
Most tutorials have an example program with it. You build one while you are learning.
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2011, 08:49:30 am »
If you have any questions pertaining to the actual logic, I can help you. I've made several programs utilizing Tile Mapping as well as a Tile Map Editor so I can definitely help. :D

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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2011, 11:39:39 am »
^the same goes here for smoothly scrolling a tilemap, which can be tricky to make fast. good luck on whatever you're doing.

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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2011, 05:02:36 pm »
Yeah I kinda get all of the sprites and map stuff, but I don't get the actually main loop stuff! ? Could someone make a real quick tutorial for me? I'm really interested in working on an rpg. They sound fun to make! 
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2011, 05:15:30 pm »
Can you break it down to more specifics? With main loop are you having trouble drawing the tilemap each frame?

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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2011, 09:51:40 pm »
Yeah I guess, I really just need a quick and easy tutorial explaining all of it
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2011, 10:00:45 pm »
Well, the way I do it in TileCat is I have an array for the data. I use two for loops like so (You should be able to port this to Axe code):

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for(int y = 0; y < MapHeight; y++)
    for(int x = 0; x < MapWidth; x++)
        {
             tile = MapArray[x + (y * MapWidth)];
             if tile == 0
                 //Draw Something at x * 8,y * 8
             if tile == 1
                 //Draw something else at x * 8,y * 8
         }

This will iterate over each tile in the array and read its value. Depending upon the value draw a sprite at X * 8 and y * 8

Note: There is a way you can modify this for scrolling by using two variables to keep track of where your view is and replacing MapWidth and MapHeight with those variables plus a value, say, 16 and 8 respectively. You will also want to make sure you don't go off the map though when doing that or going outside the array.

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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2011, 11:12:44 pm »
dont use an if statement for it.

I use nibbles, which can be any value from 0-F (0-15). So, since each pic is 8 bytes in length:

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[HEXCODE]->Pic1
[MapDataInNibbles]->GDB1
For(A,0,95)
nib{A+GDB1*2}->B
A^12->X
A/8->Y
Pt-off(X*8,Y*8,B*8+Pic1)
End

I usually use something similar to this.


Therefore, just define your pics right after each other like this:
[HEX]->Pic1
[MoreHexForPic2]
[EvenMoreHexPic3]
etc.
« Last Edit: May 14, 2012, 07:03:13 pm by C0deH4cker »

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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2011, 05:35:38 am »
That's definitely more optimised, C0deH4cker good job. I'm not sure if i get what nibbles is for. Is that a variable name?
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2011, 02:34:20 pm »
can I have an example?
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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2011, 02:45:00 pm »
Yeah, I'm not understanding this :P

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Re: Tile mapping tutorial? for axe?
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2011, 02:54:35 pm »
jonius: a nibble is four bits, or half a BYTE :P
saintrunner: c0de fellow posted a decent example there. here it is explained, though:

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[HEXCODE]->Pic1 //this is the place where you put the hex data for all of your sprites, one after another.
[MapDataInNibbles]->GDB1 //this holds the map data in nibbles, which basically just means that every four bits holds a binary number from 0 to 15 (or 0 to F) to describe what tile to draw in what location. here they are listed in rows of twelve.
For(A,0,95) //a for loop. 12*8 (the screens width and height in increments of 8) is 96, so it has to run from sprite 0 to sprite 95 in order to cover the whole screen.
nib{GDB1*2+A}->B //this gets the sprite that is to be drawn next. it uses a "nibble pointer" rather than a "byte pointer" (i'm not sure what these are actually called...), so the "byte pointer" location of GDB1 has to be doubled. A is then added to determine which one to draw currently.
A^12->X //a modulus 12, or the whole integer remainder that would remain after A is divided by 12 is stored to X
A/8->Y //the integer value of A, were it divided by 8, is stored to Y
Pt-off(X*8,Y*8,B*8+Pic1) //drawing sprites to the screen. because B holds a value from 0 to 15, multiplying this by 8 and adding Pic 1 slides the pointer to the spot where you stored your sprite data and then jumps forward to the number desired.
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