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2D All the way! / 2d tile scrolling system

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dax24
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how would you go about making a scrolling system to display tiles.
trying to make a mario game, have all sprites and collision and player movement sorted, but having trouble with screen scrolling.

can anybody offer me suggestions on where i begin?
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Pincho Paxton
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There's a lot of pages about this that you can find on here already.

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dax24
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i have looked through a lot of them and they dont seem to make sence or they are based on a scrolling backdrop rather then the tiles scrolling along.

do you know of one in specific?
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3ddd
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I've also found previous discussions on this topic to be a bit fuzzy. This topic would make for a great sticky!

Anyway, not sure if this helps but... I read on a website that one way to do it is to put all your tiles in a matrix and point a camera at it so that it appears as a top down view. Then you move the matrix when the character moves (as opposed to moving the character). Only move it a little bit at a time (e.g., 1 pixel). Then, once it has moved the width (assuming its a a side-scroller) of your tile size, you shift the matrix. This creates the appearance of smooth movement. If this is wrong then I'm sorry and someone please correct me!
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IanM
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There is an example tiling display system in CodeBase : http://developer.thegamecreators.com/?m=codebase_view_code&i=dc2f1b35292009ad54b84331daee10ef

It uses a completely tile-based system - no 3D at all.

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3ddd
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Cool, thanks.

I tried to compile under DBP but I get an error: "array size value must be numeric at Line 23"

Is it just me?

Derek
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3ddd
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I forgot to upgrade to the lastest version of DBpro... that fixed it.
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Gav_b_uk
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There's also this one which I coded....

[href]http://www.thegamecreators.com/?
m=codebase_view_code&i=e15d61a39b4020d4da8d5fe5c9e61df8[/href]
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