Sprite Efficiency

[Elias Daler]

FRex, I've seen those before, I was just wondering if what tutorials from this list you were reffering to
It's 16x16 on 240x320 than scaled to 2x. I'm making NES-like game, so it's okay for now

krzat, there's no trouble with your code, I was just interested in exploring more methods so I can come up with mine.

[FRex]

Shader one and krzat's, scrap the 'basic' one, it's too 'basic'.
Yeah, the basic one and shader one are mine(+idea and glsl code to start off of from dbug).
I'm so promoting myself right now.
https://github.com/SFML/SFML/wiki/Source%3A-ShaderTileMap
That's for 32x32 but it can be changed easily to whatever sizes, unlike the example glsl from dbug, because I've written it from scratch.

[Elias Daler]

Thanks again, I'll try to come up with something later.

[Laurent]

If your number of tiles exactly fill the window, why do you need to check which tiles are visible at all (they are all always visible)?

[Elias Daler]

Laurent, it's because of scrolling. Level is much bigger that what's on screen

[Laurent]

Yeah... what I wanted to know is the total size of the map, of course

[Elias Daler]

Well, I'm not really sure about that. Right now I just use 276 * 15 tiles map. This is the size of first Super Mario Bros 3. level(excluding vectical scrolling). I think my maps will be even bigger

[Laurent]

So, what's the problem with the quadtree?

[Elias Daler]

I don't see a problem, I just don't really know how to use them in my situation

[Laurent]

Well... then read some tutorials

And don't hesitate to come back if you have more specific problems with it.

[Elias Daler]

Well, okay. 

It's nice to see such a nice community on forums. Thanks, Laurent. 

[albert_lazaro]

Hi,

it must be strange that an old post receives a new comment. I'm designing the tilemap for the game and I wanted to know what did you implement at the end: Did you used a tileset based on an array of sprites or did you build it with a VertexArray?