Another tilemap question - animated tiles?

Tom2012

Is it possible to use animated tiles in Gideros? Or would it be easier to just make them a sprite?

Thanks!

GregBUG

mmm...
i think is not possible at the moment....

...right ? :-?

Magnusviri

I've been using both TNT Animator sprites and I've got a TileMap and I'm swapping tiles using TileMap:setTile to get animation. I asked about it here.

http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1476/is-constantly-using-tilemapsettile-a-good-idea#Item_4

When I have 100's of animated sprites it seems TNT Animator slows down. I will probably switch to swapping tiles to see if that is faster. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have 100's of animated sprites, but yeah.

GregBUG

@Magnusviri

which device are you trying?

Scouser

It may also be better to use the Mesh API and change the texture to animate, there may be less of an overhead.

Just a suggestion of course

Tom2012

I've been using both TNT Animator sprites and I've got a TileMap and I'm swapping tiles using TileMap:setTile to get animation. I asked about it here.

http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1476/is-constantly-using-tilemapsettile-a-good-idea#Item_4

When I have 100's of animated sprites it seems TNT Animator slows down. I will probably switch to swapping tiles to see if that is faster. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have 100's of animated sprites, but yeah.

Ah that's an interesting solution. Hadn't considered that. I'll test it this afternoon.

Tom2012

Are there any examples on how to do this?

Thanks

Magnusviri

Are there any examples on how to do this?

Of which? For the TNT Animator sprites I just make sure the tile map is set to a blank tile and I put the sprite on top of the tile map. For switching out tiles quickly I just use TileMap:setTile() and I call it at a set interval, just like the Bird example that comes with Gideros.

My device is an iPhone 4.

Magnusviri

It may also be better to use the Mesh API and change the texture to animate, there may be less of an overhead.

I have no idea what the mesh API is. I assumed it meant we could import 3d meshes and use them in 2d. I guess I should go read the release notes for the version that introduced meshes.

GregBUG

tnt animator for change frames use movieclips and as said by @atilim it already uses internally Mesh. so i think using mesh api (from lua code) is not faster.

techdojo

Another idea (depending on how many tiles you wish to animate) is simply use the tile as a marker and then before your game starts parse the tiled map data and look for any markers and then create a normal sprite object. You can then move this object around the "game world" so that it always appears in the same place on the map and should look just like a part of your map is animating.

Magnusviri

Another idea (depending on how many tiles you wish to animate) is simply use the tile as a marker and then before your game starts parse the tiled map data and look for any markers and then create a normal sprite object. You can then move this object around the "game world" so that it always appears in the same place on the map and should look just like a part of your map is animating.

I just move my map (subclass of Sprite, it contains the TileMap) with setPosition.

evs

Hello,

You can use TileMap:getTile and TileMap:setTile to animate

Heres a quick hack of an old demo I put up now with an animated tile


cheers

evs