Well, I successfully created a tile-based map. And my little avatar can move around on it. But now I've decided that I want him to be in the center of the map and have the map scroll. Apparently XNA didn't like my implementation too much.
First, Map.cs
public const int mapWidth = 20;
public const int mapHeight = 20;
public static int mapX = 0;
public static int mapY = 0;
//map stored in array
public void Draw(SpriteBatch sBatch)
{
//a pair of for loops to iterate through both dimensions
//of the array containing the map
for (int y = 0; y < mapHeight; y++)
{
for (int x = 0; x < mapWidth; x++)
{
sBatch.Draw(tiles[map[y + mapY, x + mapX]],
new Rectangle(x * tileWidth, y * tileHeight,
tileWidth, tileHeight), Color.White);
}
}
And the part that (I thought) would move the map in Main.cs
protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
{
KeyboardState kState = Keyboard.GetState();
float elapsedTime = (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds;
totalTime += elapsedTime;
if (totalTime >= keyPressDelay)
{
if (kState.IsKeyDown(Keys.W))
{
TileMap.mapY--;
totalTime = 0.0f;
}
else if (kState.IsKeyDown(Keys.S))
{
TileMap.mapY++;
totalTime = 0.0f;
}
else if (kState.IsKeyDown(Keys.A))
{
TileMap.mapX--;
totalTime = 0.0f;
}
else if (kState.IsKeyDown(Keys.D))
{
TileMap.mapX++;
totalTime = 0.0f;
}
}
}
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I suppose the compiler error might help.
Quote:Original message from Compiler
System.IndexOutOfRangeException was unhandled
Message="Index was outside the bounds of the array."
Is the reason for this because I don't have a limit for the size of my map being shown to the viewer? That is, the entire map is drawn to fill up the entire window; however, the window is not large enough to fit the entire map. I have no boundaries set for the map, so it just tries to scroll beyond what my map's boundaries (the end of the map instead of the size of the window) are?
This is such a difficult journey...
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