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General / Re: Need Help From Someone Experienced with SFML

« on: October 04, 2015, 02:40:49 am »

Okay, thank you! My main concern was that I wouldn't be able to implement the same code and I didn't want to begin altering what I have only to figure out, hey, I need to entirely alter the design of my game. But thank you, I'll give that a shot.

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General / Re: Need Help From Someone Experienced with SFML

« on: October 04, 2015, 02:26:29 am »

The game portion of the code is irrelevant.. It's based on a random number generator that only works if you're in the coordinates marked by '~'. My original C++ game is a while loop that continuously redraws a map, given a character position (X,Y). There are limits that the character, marked by 'X', cannot leave the boundaries of the map. As I said above, it's all in one huge 2D array given by example: int Map[17][22] = { ... } . That is how I drew the map, and the map is essentially re-declared and re-initialized every time an outside function called DrawMap(Position of Character) is called. That's how I made it so that the map looks the same every re-drawing except with the 'X' (Character) being in a different position.

So, given all of that, I have something that basically looks like this.

int a = 0, b = 0;
a = _getch();
if (a == 224)
      b = _getch()
      if (b == ...)
the different options for b are the different ASCII values for the arrow keys. That's how I get the 'X' to move around the map. What I'm wondering is, if I replace my map with graphics from SFML, will I still be able to implement this same type of code to move the character? Keep in mind, I have restrictions that say if character is in (x,y) and it's next to a wall, they cannot move into the wall. If you want to see the actual code, I'll send it to you. I don't want to just post my entire program because that ruins the point of me creating my own logic for it, especially because it could definitely be written in a lot of different ways.

ESSENTIALLY, all I'm asking is will I have to entirely rewrite my entire program? Or is it possible to merely replace my DrawMap() function with 2D graphics using SFML?

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General / Re: Need Help From Someone Experienced with SFML

« on: October 04, 2015, 02:07:56 am »

I'm just asking for someone to help. Rather than go through every small detail of SFML, I was wondering if someone could help guide me in just building a small interface with the map I have. And I was also wondering if I would be able to take my code for movement and how I would implement it into a SFML interface.

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General / Need Help From Someone Experienced with SFML

« on: October 04, 2015, 02:02:44 am »

Basically, my situation is this. I have created a small game (an image of the screen is down at the bottom). It's entirely text-based; I used a 2D array to create the map and I created the boundaries and everything using simply cin && cout options. By the way, it runs on C++. I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, rather than create an entire new game, merely replace the map I have created with actual images (let's say brown for a wall, green for grass, etc.). I'm not trying to build an entirely new game, I merely want to replace my text-drawn map with an actual 2D image.