2D Tile engine and OpenGL
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hey guys, im planning on writing somewhat of a 2d tiling
engine in OpenGL, and i was wondering about some of the
concepts..
so far, this is what i''ve got:
am i correct to assume that i should make a quad for each tile (including ones on other layers)?
also- lets say my tileset is 256x1024.. since it is much larger
than 256x256, i''d need to split it up somehow..
would an efficient way to do this be to create a new 256x256 quad
offscreen for each block of the tileset? or is there a better way?
the other method i thought of:
i suppose at runtime i could initiallize it into an array..
ie.. 256x1024 would be 256 tiles.. so i could do
texture[(width * height) / 32]
whats the best way to go about doing this?
i checked out nehe''s tuts and 21 was the most helpful..
but it didnt have anything about textures..
-eldee
;another space monkey;
I''m not too good with this stuff, but I''d use triangle strips instead of quads for each tile. That''s all I got.
Alex Broadwin
A-Tronic Software & Design
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are triangles faster?
how would i go about rendering 1/2 of a texture on one side and the other half on the other?
heh.. i got some more reading to do
-eldee
;another space monkey;
how would i go about rendering 1/2 of a texture on one side and the other half on the other?
heh.. i got some more reading to do
-eldee
;another space monkey;
Well, quads are broken into triangles by the driver or hardware which can have a performance hit, but so do the extra function calls to draw quads with triangles explicitly. ATronic is right about triangle strips, though, since they require lots less data to be sent, which means less function calls, less memory, and easier processing in the hardware. But they can be tricky to set up. But for a tile-based game, quads are fine.
I'd probably store as many tiles as you can in 256x256 images, each of which will get loaded to its own texture. This is less than ideal since most hardware these days can handle larger than that and it's best to have bigger images than lots of tiny ones, but this saves you lots of headache. You'll, of course, need to store information about all of your tiles such as which texture they're on and at which position. If you're really brave, though, the best thing might be to load as many images as you can into as many large textures as you need (use glGetIntegerv with GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE ), but that's probably overkill, so just use 256x256 textures. 
Edited by - merlin9x9 on January 9, 2002 12:51:15 AM
Edited by - merlin9x9 on January 9, 2002 12:51:15 AM
If each tile is 256x256, then you could string them all together in one big bitmap, and then use gltexcoord2d() to split it up.
Quads are fine, and if you do not have allot of triangles that use the same texture, then you can end up with a mess
Check out one of the font tutorials on NEHE, as you can see, all the fonts are in 1 bitmap, and.. well, you will get the picture.
Quads are fine, and if you do not have allot of triangles that use the same texture, then you can end up with a mess
Check out one of the font tutorials on NEHE, as you can see, all the fonts are in 1 bitmap, and.. well, you will get the picture.
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yeah, i dont think quads will slow the game down at all
you figure a screen w/ 32x32 tiles on a 640x480 resolution
will only have 300 quads (per layer) drawn at a time...
assuming i dont have a buffer layer... add 70 more quads for a 1
tile buffer layer around the edge of the screen...
dont think that''ll decrease performance...
-eldee
;another space monkey;
you figure a screen w/ 32x32 tiles on a 640x480 resolution
will only have 300 quads (per layer) drawn at a time...
assuming i dont have a buffer layer... add 70 more quads for a 1
tile buffer layer around the edge of the screen...
dont think that''ll decrease performance...
-eldee
;another space monkey;
I''m the developer of Jedi-IsoAx (currently in revision for Version 2). You can use that as a basis for yours if need be or join JEDI-IsoAx at sourceforge to contribute to this project. For a quick download you can get the engine and a small test file at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JEDI-IsoAxEE/files/
file is called isoengine2.zip
file is called isoengine2.zip
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