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    totebototebo Member
    edited April 2018 in General questions
    What would be the best way of using a TileMap to move around a huge map (1000x1000)? Is there an efficient way to load new tiles, without having to update all visible tiles?
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    • SinisterSoftSinisterSoft Maintainer
      a 1000x1000 map is pretty huge. You should find out which bits are used and use multiple smaller tilemaps as children of a sprite.
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    • totebototebo Member
      I never need to show all tiles, so wondered if there is a way to update only the visible area to show a small portion of tiles. The shift function only moves all tiles I think.
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    • totebototebo Member
      Oh, I think I get what you mean; have a 3x3 grid of 9 TileMaps and load and update as needed?
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    • SinisterSoftSinisterSoft Maintainer
      yes, - but never use the shift function - that should only be used for something like an endless scroller.

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    • SinisterSoftSinisterSoft Maintainer
      I don't mean to have the grids be next to each other either - that will use the same amount of space - use the blank area to spread them out.

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    • antixantix Member
      I've been running procedural generated tilemaps 1024x1024 in size with 4 tile layers (and 4 sprite layers) on both my Pixel C and Nexus 4 without any issues.

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