[gameprogrammer] Re: How to have hills in a tiled game

Increase your granularity. You'll have large blocks of unused data but that always happens anyway. You should build your map from larger building blocks that are instanced to save memory.

Alan Wolfe wrote:

Hey guys,
I'm making a 2d sidescroller and the maps are just tiled in the normal fashion like...
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
where each number has attributes (like if it's solid or not) as well as art.
This makes for really rectangular map though.
Does anyone know how to make hills and slopes in a 2d sidescroller? like the techniques generaly used for that, something like how mario 3 worked, or just being able to have 45 degree slants would be better than nothing.
thanks a bunch! 


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