2D TileMap Editor?

[Amon]

I've programmed lots of them, some with GUI and some without. The important thing here is that I know how to write the code for a 2D Tilemap Editor.

What I am looking for is assistance with what Objects to use i.e. what would I use as the main object to draw all the images on etc?

Please forgive the questions or assistance request, I know these things may be covered in a Tutorial or Doc somewhere so again apologies if what I'm asking has been covered before.

Ta!

[jacque]

I'm not exactly sure what the goal is, but it sounds like you just want to lay out images in a grid. If so, you have a couple of choices. The easiest is just to place the actual images onto the card. Each image will be its own object and you can move, hide, show, or delete them at will.

Another option is to lay out a grid of buttons and set the icon of each button to the ID of an imported (and hidden) tile image. There's no particular advantage to this if you will only use the images on a single card. Button icons are useful when you want to duplicate an icon across several cards or objects; you only need one copy of the original image in the stack. If you are only going to show an image in a single place, it's easier to just show the image itself. If you want to show the same image on multiple tiles then use button icons.

In either case, you don't "draw" images; the images are imported onto the card as image objects. The card itself is the background against which the objects are displayed.