Castle Paradox

[NayusDante]

Is it possible, through scripting or otherwise to use map sprites larger than 20x20?
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[Bob the Hamster]

Through scripting yes, but it would be nearly as much trouble as re-writing the whole map system.

You could use a GridSlice and fill it with sprites, which would make it pretty easy to do other tile sizes-- however, that method would mean your maptiles would actually be sprites, and would be subject to the 16 color limitations of sprites. Also, I would expect it to run slowly if you made the map very large.

Probably more work than it would be worth.

I do think that SpoonWeaver is currently working on a game that uses slices to simulate *smaller* than 20x20 tiles.

At some point in the future, variable tile sizes might become a standard feature, but I can't predict how soon.

[Moogle1]

[Bob the Hamster]

[TMC]

Painting the map using slices is definitely going to be many times slower than the builtin map drawing, but on the other hand drawing a map layer takes a small fraction of 1% CPU time on any non-ancient computer, so it'll probably be alright.

However, I think you're both misinterpreting NayusDante and that he was asking about walkabout sprites. In which case my answer is: yes, it's possible, and in fact it should be really easy (though I don't know of anyone to actually do it for all NPCs and heroes!).

There are two pitfalls, however: wrap-around maps, and overhead map layers (if a walkabout sprite is too tall, its head could be chopped off when standing in front of a tree which uses a map layer to draw the top of the tree)
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[Moogle1]

[Spoon Weaver]