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pixels per tile, tiles per screen?

zdlr · 2002-07-04T06:32:04

Ok, I''m recreating a platformer a la Megaman (I love that game). The original on the Nes uses around tiles of pixels 16x16 with 16x16 tiles per screen. I''m thinking of using tiles of pixels 64x64 and 15 across, 12 up. The pixel dimensions of the screen would then be: 960 wide 768 tall Meaning I could run the game at 1200x800 and leave a bit of space either null or for points / lives display, etc. Also there would be 15x12 tiles per screen: 192. Is this about right or shouldn''t I use 64x64 pixel tiles? Are am I being pedantic by worrying. The tiles would be 24 or 32 bit color. ZdlR

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Started by zdlr June 30, 2002 06:17 PM

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July 04, 2002 06:32 AM

quote:Original post by zdlr
I''ve got my tile-rendering algorithm down but I can''t seem to get textures to display. I don''t know what''s going on with it.

What I always forget is to make the size of the textures powers of 2 (like 8, 16, 32, 64, ..) and call glColor3f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) before rendering the textures. Maybe that''s what''s wrong?