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  1. Nov 14th, 2001, 12:39 PM #1
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    Loading levels..

    I am making a little game using bit blt. So far i have a little d00de running around a picture box with a few bit blt drawn obstructions. i was wondering if i could store bit blt drawn stuff, say in another form, or module, and when the player reaches the edge of the screen, it loads the level i set up from the other form or whatever.

    can this be done?
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  2. Nov 14th, 2001, 07:12 PM #2
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    Yes but there are better ways; if you are using a tile based engine ( I assume so ) then consider an array.

    For example:

    Dim Map(50,50) As Integer

    ' a value of 1 means grass, 2 means water, etc.
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    do u have an example project or something i could use?
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  4. Nov 15th, 2001, 12:02 PM #4
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    Email me and I'll send you a sample, its too big for poor VBForums

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    any chance of sending that to [email protected] too please

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    There are lots of tile engines demonstrations, I'll name just a few:

    http://www.vbexplorer.com
    http://orion.spaceports.com/~mccloud/
    http://rookscape.com/vbgaming/

    I'd post VB-Den and a couple more too, but I forgot the URL
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