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OK...i wanna start an rpg. I've downloaded EVERY tut i can find...alot help. OK...i'm working on a scroller(simple tile-by-tile) in all the tuts i find have a seprate array for each tile and the tiles are hard coded in to the game.I want to load a tile set into an array, so i can change tilesets. OH... whats the best why to do the passibility? do i need to make a layer for it?? I know this is a long post, maybe i'm tring to bite off more than i can chew...but you gotta start somewhere ...I would appreciate help...THANX!

well, i suggest using 16x16 tiles...

Here is how it should generally go..

<<please note that the map size can be changed>>

You can optimize this code by drawing the map only when MapShowX or MapShowY has been changed....

i was jsut doing that code off the top of my head, so there is bound to b ways of making it faster.

Oz~

check the order of the dimmensions in the array that holds the tiles. It is reversed (QB stores stuff in column order, so it should be DIM Tileset(16*16\2+1, NumberOfTiles) AS INTEGER).

Quote:OK...i wanna start an rpg. I've downloaded EVERY tut i can find...alot help. OK...i'm working on a scroller(simple tile-by-tile) in all the tuts i find have a seprate array for each tile and the tiles are hard coded in to the game.I want to load a tile set into an array, so i can change tilesets. OH... whats the best why to do the passibility? do i need to make a layer for it?? I know this is a long post, maybe i'm tring to bite off more than i can chew...but you gotta start somewhere ...I would appreciate help...THANX!

If your tiles are standard QB GET/PUT format, then you can use this code...(Assuming your using SCREEN 13 too.)
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'This gets the length of bytes the tile set contains...
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'This code dimensions an array, if file$ exists, which will hold your tile set, and then BLOADS it into the array...


Now you can use your tiles just like normal

Cya.