Dynamically Generated Maps

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-01-29 03:21:27
User: Selim_042 [] (age: 1006 days 🙌; posts: 2)}
Hello, I am considering attempting to make a dynamically generated dungeon crawler and looking for an engine to use. Looking at the documentation it seems to recommend using Tiled to create maps, but that looks to generate static maps. I'm wondering if LITIEngine supports dynamically generated maps, or if I should look for a different engine. Thanks for your help!

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-01-29 07:23:48
User: KvaGram [] (age: 1068 days 🔥; posts: 52)}
So far, it seems LITI does not have any support for dynamic maps, unfortunately.
One way I could see this implemented, is if LITIengine allowed you to stitch together maps dynamically like patchwork. Sadly though, it seems the engine only supports one map at a time.
Such a feature would also help with my game.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-01-29 07:54:27
User: KvaGram [] (age: 1068 days 🔥; posts: 52)}
I just realized, it should be possible to write your own implementation of IMap.
This is where the tile-data for a game is stored.
The typical implementation, TmxMap, is just a middle-layer for translating the xml-data from the Tiled files into something LITIengine can use.
In theory, if you are a skilled programmer, you could build your dynamic map into that.
Though collisions, Map areas, entities, and other features from UtiLITI wouldn't be copied over.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-01-29 13:19:09
User: Selim_042 [] (age: 1006 days 🙌; posts: 2)}
Thanks, I will look into that!

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-01-29 14:21:23
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
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