Night 3: Gravity

dholth on 2014/10/08 03:12 of The Cowboy Questers

Heavy stuff. Got the object layer to fall, and collide with the solid world layer.

Today I realized that PyTMX does not assign IDs to or load the coordinates for unused tiles. This makes it difficult to render the second frame of, for example, a bad-guy animation, if the level as drawn in Tiled only shows the first frame.

Instead, my game now uses a second Tiled map just for the characters. Each row is a single character and each column is one of the standard frames for characters like run or jump. The tiles, in a shared tileset, also carry properties to hold names like 'Hero', 'Skeleton' etc. (I am using http://opengameart.org/content/simple-broad-purpose-tileset). By loading the second 'critters.tmx' in the background, PyTMX gives me coordinates and properties for all the interesting tiles that don't necessarily appear statically in a level.

The game also handles gamepad hotplugging and removal properly, and as an optimization no longer draws tiles that are outside the visible area of the screen.