In need of very large tilemap. Looking for feedback to structure it properly

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edge17
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I've been reading through a lot of the tilemap threads, and have found a lot of info. I'm just not sure if that info scales to my needs -

What I need is a 1000x1000 tile tilemap. Before going through the footwork of splitting it into smaller pieces across layers, and then making only the layer(s) on screen visible, I'd like to find out whether this is even worth my time or if fps will still fall through the floor?

even if I split it into 100x100 chunks, that's 100 layers which I'd need. What's the overhead of that many additional layers?

Posted 1 year ago #
araker
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There isn't much overhead, the memory footprint of the additional CCLayer objects is small. For a few different strategies on how to split the map, look at this topic.

I would split it into pieces of 50 x 50, that way when you need to display 4 chunks/pieces it's still only 100 x 100 tiles that will be send to the gpu. Above 100 x 100 tiles the framerate will drop below 60.

Out of interest, does your layer consist mostly of static tiles?

Posted 1 year ago #
edge17
Member

@araker: Thanks for the feedback, that's extremely helpful info.

What precisely do you mean by static? Do you mean static as opposed to something animated? Most/All the tiles will just be flat textures. Nothing fancy in the least.

Posted 1 year ago #

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