Help!!!! --> Tiles

[squirrelly1]

Tiles and Blocking
Hello Every1,

I am currently building my first game and have run into some pretty simple, but killer problems. Here goes...

Here is the example that I got my tile engine from...
here's the engine

My questions are:
1) how can I keep my character (sprite) in the center of the map
2) how can I make the map move according to keyboard commands

I know how to move an object with the keyboard, but this seems to be a totally different story...


Thanx for any help,
Squirrelly1

[Jotaf98]

That's easy!

When you press the arrow keys, move the screen AND change the playerX/Y variables accordingly (of course you can't move the screen when it's already in the edge :P )

Try it, it'll work. You'll also have much simplier code than Fox's demonstration

And load your map from a file. You'll have to make a simple map editor too, but it's worth it
(Most people hard-code the tiles into the game, but that's not very good)

[Fox]

Try it, it'll work. You'll also have much simplier code than Fox's demonstration

(this is from my tutorial)

[Jotaf98]

Heh well, it's just that this way you don't have to check if the player has reached the edge of the screen to move it
(Because it seems that a lot of people who are new to this kind of stuff don't like collision detection and stuff like this )