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Releases / Re: 2D Toolkit 2.3.3

« on: January 20, 2014, 07:24:27 pm »

I have just found a very unusual error: I have three Sorting Layers, with Default in the middle. When I try to change the Sorting Layer in a tk2dSprite, I can choose top and bottom layer, but not the Default one. When I click on Default it just switches back to the layer it was on before.

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Releases / Re: 2D Toolkit 2.0 beta 1

« on: May 27, 2013, 10:53:13 am »

Just one quick question about migrating textmeshes. I used the now gone "GetMeshDimensionsForString" method and can't find the alternative anywhere. I guess it's just renamed or in another class. Any help?

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Support / Re: Sprite Layering

« on: December 26, 2012, 12:38:08 pm »

Hm, well, ok. I thought there were a more elegant way to solve this. A colleague implemented something like this by changing the render queue, but it was very slow with many sprites.

And yep. I didn't thought of moving the camera farther away

Thank you for your help

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Support / Re: Sprite Layering

« on: December 25, 2012, 09:12:37 pm »

For starters: At which z-position should the tilemap be? I don't want to move around every single object every frame. I mean the most trivial method would be to set 'z = - y' every frame. So things that go "up", go "behind". But after a few seconds going "up" or "down" your objects would move behind the map or out of the camera. This would be a problem even with 0.01-steps if the map is big enough.

I think one could just change the position of sprites that overlap, but before I implement something like that I want to know if there are any simpler methods, i haven't thought of yet.

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Support / Sprite Layering

« on: December 23, 2012, 02:59:30 pm »

Hi there,

I have a question about best practices for sprite layering. I'm currently working on an oldschool rpg style game (eg Zelda ALttP, or Final Fantasy 6 or less) with tilemaps. Tilemap layering is not the issue, but layering overlapping sprites in the world itself.

I want my sprites to overlap sprites that are "behind" them (from game perspective), but are overlapped from the same sprites, if they are "behind" them. I don't know how to best describe my problem, so I made a few images with prototype graphics.

Player is the green link sprite. This is correct.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0m9Fxe6-AAQZ0FWdU1HbktWRVU

If the player walks behind the dark link sprite. This happens now, but is not correct.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0m9Fxe6-AAQV0d3bGxsaEJaQUU

And this is the correct expected behavior.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0m9Fxe6-AAQeWVQM2pTbmpKNnM

My question is: What are the best practices to get this behavior? I thought of always changing the z-positition of all sprites in regard to their y-position, but i guess thats dumb.
Another thought was to change the render queue all the time, but that would mean to create a new material every time, right?

I appreciate any help of you guys. Thanks in advance

Loofou

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Support / Re: TileMap Layer offset

« on: August 25, 2012, 02:28:19 pm »

They are sorted from top-left already :/ still needed the offset.

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Support / Re: TileMap Layer offset

« on: August 24, 2012, 09:58:16 am »

I hope to have finished prototyping by then But thanks for the warning.

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Support / Re: TileMap Layer offset

« on: August 24, 2012, 09:41:43 am »

Thank you! This works perfectly Nonetheless I would had preferred something more dynamic, but as I need this just for prototyping, it's not worth the trouble.

So thanks again for your time

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Support / Re: TileMap Layer offset

« on: August 23, 2012, 10:22:50 pm »

Problem is: I use an overlapping tileset for prototyping, so every layer needs an offset in the y axis to stack seemless to the lower tiles.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5p2voko4lp2xzi9/LayerOffset.PNG

I have scribbled the needed offset in the picture above, so you'll get the idea of what i'm looking for.
The grass tiles are in layer 0 and the wooden blocks (and the blocks to the left) are in layer 1.

I don't know how to describe it any better, so I hope you understand what I mean

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Support / TileMap Layer offset

« on: August 23, 2012, 11:14:21 am »

Hello Everyone,

I don't know if I am just blind or stupid, but I can't find the layer offset function anywhere. In the 2dtk doc's tilemap tutorial there is a picture that shows layer offsets, but that feature seems to be gone in the newest version. I try to prototype my game using overlapping block tiles, so I need to set an offset in the Y coordinate for the upper layers to stack seemless to the lower blocks. Any guess where I would find the option?

I really appreciate any help with this, so thanks in advance!

Loofou