RPG map sizing

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Two types of minimap: "full map" and "player is the center" (square map and radial map)
  • Hello,

    Wondering if anyone has an idea for reducing the lag caused by a large map sprite.

    I was considering chopping it up into smaller sprites, then setting the sections visible to the players location. so at any given time, only 4 of 20 map sprites were being drawn. would this help? or would it be better to just cut the map into smaller sprites and display all?

    I could destroy instances of the sprites, then spawn when needed?

    Thanks!

    Also, I will be using a lot of solid "block" sprites to section off the walkable areas. is there a better method than this?

  • Your best off I think with your second solution. If your sprite is THAT big. chop it up and place it in a grid to be displayed. Let C2 do the culling work for object outside the viewport. Also when chopping your map make sure to chop them into the standard binary exponent.

    1x1

    2x2

    4x4

    8x8

    16x16

    32x32

    64x64

    128x128

    256x256

    512x512

    1024x1024

    Also don't forget that 0 counts as 1. so it would be 255x255

  • Thanks for the advice! I will give it a shot and test it out.

  • How are you making your maps? If you're using just one big tiled background object for it I highly highly highly recommend you don't do that. Instead, you should build your maps out of smaller bitesized objects; a combination of sprites and tiled background objects is the method I use. Keeps filesize and loading down and performance up.

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  • Here is an example of the type of map I'm going for (using RPG maker to rough out my maps initially).

    So you would recommend using a repeating tiled background for the water, and maybe cut the land portions down into 256x256 segments perhaps?

    <img src="http://portacannongame.blogspot" border="0" />

  • I have a picture on my website here (that one didn't seem to work):

    portacannongame.blogspot.ca

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