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Derekioh

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Posted: 11th Aug 2012 18:56

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So I am wondering how i would go about going from one tile map to another. Like you are in a room and there is stairs going down and when you hi the stairs and loads a new tile map with the room below. I believe it is called \"portal\" but not sure. I can load the tile maps fine, just need help with the event to transition it. Any ideas?

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TheComet

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Posted: 11th Aug 2012 19:09

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You'll have to link the portals together in order for them to work, and that's best done by assigning a unique ID to every portal and then having connected portals store the ID of the portal it connects to:

Portal(0).connectID = 3
Portal(1).connectID = 0
Portal(2).connectID = 0
Portal(3).connectID = 1

Above you can see that portal 0 goes to 3, portal 1 goes to 0, portal 2 goes to 0, and portal 3 goes to 1. That's how I'd connect them together.

Then what you could do is something like this:

-check if player collides with a portal
-check if the portal has a connectID in another map
-dump the coordinates of the player into a file
-make some cool transition effect into a black screen
-load new map into memory
-set player coordinates to that of the "end portal"
-make another coll transition effect from black into the map

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