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+ceocan+
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how do you make a tile editor (for a RPG)
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Pyromaniac
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hey, im trying to do that very same thing
I need to build my RPG first though ^_^

a bit of advice, you should be a bit more descriptive in your posts

ciao

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I need to build first a tile editor but I don't know how. can someone tell me how I can do this?

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Attreid
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it isn't very hard :
you juste have to position tiles, and every time you do it, you save in an array :
1. the number of the tile's image
2. the position x of the tile
3. the position y of the tile
after that, you can save your array in a file.

I've an advice : don't position the tiles in your code, or it will be the greatest mess of the known univers

I'm following John, but I'm not john.
Lol, it is funnier in french
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can you give me a example code?????

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indi
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something like this might get your started


x = 10
y = 10


dim tileloc(x,y)

rem we are ignoring the zero in this arrray for this example

for x = 1 to 10
for y = 1 to 10
tileloc(x,y) = rnd(4)+1
next x
next y


this would make all the tiles in a 1 to 10 x 1 to 10 area randomly 1- 5

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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---> I've an advice : don't position the tiles in your code, or it will be the greatest mess of the known universe <---

do you mean like, dont type in "make tile blah blah here, etc" in DB?


also, you could kinda save levels to txt files so they can be loaded back later couldn't you? I am having problems getting my hear around this, i keep thinking that you would have to save the number of tiles placed, then write all those "load image "blah blah" commands to a text file to be loaded back again

anyone understand my Schpeel??

You could take over the world with a programming language like this...

...I wasnt joking!
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???????????? I still don't get it

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um...me neither...

reading through my post again i dont even understand what I meant

ok, i'll rephrase my question

when i make a tile editor, if the user clicks, a tile will be created and you can move it around. another click "drops" the tile onto the map

I get the saving of the tiles into the text file part, but what i dont get is; when I load my map back, do will all the tile sprites already have to exist for it to work correctly? Would i have to pre-load, say 25 of the same image and sprite it 25 times, if i were going to use that tile 25 times in my map

You could take over the world with a programming language like this...

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um...me neither...

reading through my post again i dont even understand what I meant

ok, i'll rephrase my question

when i make a tile editor, if the user clicks, a tile will be created and you can move it around. another click "drops" the tile onto the map

I get the saving of the tiles into the text file part, but what i dont get is; when I load my map back, do will all the tile sprites already have to exist for it to work correctly? Would i have to pre-load, say 25 of the same image and sprite it 25 times, if i were going to use that tile 25 times in my map

anyone get me this time?

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whoops posted twice there

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what i showed u was the essence to storing the tiles into an array.

I dont think u would want to pick it and drop but just change the tile in the current square u are over.

if your tile is 256 x256 and placed in the top left corner then halfway is 128 and the position of the mouse over this area dictates what number u want to change in the array.

divide the mouse co ordinates by 8 to get a tile grabbing area as an example.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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