What problem(s) are you having with the animated tiles?

I just don't understand how Tile Studio sets up the sequence data. Right now I think I have the sequences outputed to an animation, but I'm really not quite sure how it works to say how it displays in the tile data.

Each sequence is just two arrays of the same length, the length being the number of frames. One is for the tile indices and the other for the frame rates. The tile indices work the same wall as the ones used for the map data, 0 is nothing and the others reference a tile in the sprite sheet. The "frame rate" array represetns how many frames each frame of the animation should be on screen, however frame based timing sucks so you might want to think up another method.

Here's some pseudo code(might explain things a little better)

int Length = 10; // animation is 10 frames long
int Indices[10];
int Rate[10];

int Count = 0;
int CurrentFrame = 0;

Render() // called once per frame
{
	if( Indices[CurrentFrame] != 0 )
	{
		DrawTile( Indices[CurrentFrame] - 1 ); 
	}
	Count++;
	if( Count >= Rate[CurrentFrame] )
	{
		Count = 0;
		CurrentFrame++;
		if( CurrentFrame >= Length )
		{
			CurrentFrame = 0;
		}
	}
	return;
}

Oh yeah, for sequences in maps like the water there. If you come across a tile number that's negative that means it a sequence. The sequence to draw is the positive version of that number. So something like this:

DrawSequence( Abs( MapData[y][x] ) - 1 );

Be sure that you're reading them into whatever array you have in the right order. The numbers Tile Studio uses reference the order it was output. So a map tile with the value of -1 represents the first sequence in the file.

Quote:

Abs( MapData[y][x] ) - 1

AHAH!! That's what I was missing!!! Thanks a lot!