game-editor.com

I'm trying to understand the concept of tiles from a GE point of view.

Also, what's the best way to draw a background from small pngs rather than having one big 240x320 background image? I'd like to make a png about 16x16 or so and then copy it across and down the screen for a background and put actors on top of it.

About making one large tile, I would say do as what you want.

I prefer using tiles, I can make better, neater backgrounds using it.

But if you mean Background as the skybox, then I would use 1 big image, unless you want it to change colours etc. then I would use tiles for it.

WauloK wrote: I'd like to make a png about 16x16 or so and then copy it across and down the screen for a background and put actors on top of it.

You can make it an infinite actor, or just tile it in the first place.

What I was trying to work out is I just want to put images in the background, repeated.. maybe different ones per level (so maybe no infinite?) with no attributes like collisions, animation, etc on it cos even if I have actors with all this turned off I assume it will have some sort of impact on speed.
Are tiles just images and thats it?

Tiles are an actor, of sorts. If you use the tiling system that makslane made for GE, then all collisions and events treat the tiles as a whole; you dont do collision detection against individuals. If you need a specialized tile, use an separate actor in place of that tile.

I had some trouble understanding the Tile funcrtion too. I'm still not too swift with it.

There is some information in the docs about tiles, but it still left me a bit confused. You can find that information here:
Game Editor Pro\Docs\gettingstarted_theactorcontrolpanel.htm


Another link that might help you clarify things is:
http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ight=tiles

Finally, if you haven't already looked at the tutorial in GE under "Getting Started"--> Build the senario with Tiles, it might help you.

Sorry if this isn't what you are after. I just wanted to try and give you back a little in return for your help with my "get actor state" question...

Perhaps I should just design some graphics as fonts and then to fill the screen with my background, make a text box with lowest Z order (if poss) and write in the textbox:

000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000
000000000000000

for level 1 then

111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111
111111111111111

for level 2, etc. That'd have an image on the screen not associated with anything and with no attributes.