Tile Maps

#1 Finding the center in terms of getting the world position of a center of a single tile within a tile map?

#2 ya, im just trying to make sure that objects that i place in the tiles have even spacing.

#3 Here is some script code to return the world position of the center of a tile.

function getTileCenter(%layer, %tileX, %tileY)
{
//get the world coordinates of the tileLayer
%LayerPosX = %Layer.getPositionX();
%LayerPosY = %Layer.getPositionY();

// get tile width and height

%tilesize = %layer.GetTileSize();
%tilewidth = getWord(%tilesize, 0);
%tileheight = getWord(%tilesize, 1);

// get the upper left X and Y

%width = %layer.GetWidth();
%height = %layer.GetHeight();
%x = %layerPosX - (%width / 2);
%y = %layerPosY - (%height / 2);

// get what half the tile is

%halfx = %tilewidth / 2;
%halfy = %tileheight / 2;

// get the final position

%xcoord = %tilex * %tilewidth + %halfx;
%ycoord = %tiley * %tileheight + %halfy;

%x = %x + %xcoord;
%y = %y + %ycoord;

return %x SPC %y;
}

#4 Thanx a ton! you didnt have to go through the trouble of writing that for me, i was just wondering if there was a built in way of doing it, but it works all the same.

#5 No worries, I had it already since I need that capability in my game and I don't mind sharing.

#6 So you are working with tiles too? if you dont mind me asking, do you know if there is a way to return the name of the imagemap that you apply to the tile in the Tilemap editor? i know that you can do it with static sprites but i dont know how with tilemaps.

#7 I didn't see a command for that in the documents but if you use this command -

%tilelayer.setTileCustomData()

You can give a tile a custom data value, which could be the name of the sprite that it represents or some other useful value then retrieve it when you need it.

#8 ya i was lookin at that myself, but i think im gunna go in a different direction. thanks for all the help