[XP] Stop map tiling in empty space

[Ellie]

I am editing game map so that the player is always in the centre of the screen.

What I want is that if the player reaches the edge of the map, they just see a black void.

Well, it turns out maps tile in empty space like that. Does anyone have any idea how to stop this tiling/wrapping?

Imagine I've just walked to point (-5, 10) -- instead of being on a copy of the map, I want to be on complete black.


At the moment, let's say I've set the player to always be in the middle of the screen, and I walk to the far left of the map. Instead of there being nothing next to me, I see the far right of the map, looping. I want for there just to be -nothing there at all. Just black space.

 

[Pokémaniac]

I honestly have no idea, but you could just add a black border around your map with the shift function.

 

[Zeriab]

We solved it on IRC ^_^
Here is a solution: http://paste-bin.com/view/e365a0f9

*hugs*

 

[Ellie]

Thanks zeri ^^

Just in case anyone's interested, I actually combined this with:

viewtopic.php?p=761361#p761361

To create a nice fading border.

 

[Glitchfinder]

Actually, if you looked, it was the opposite side of the map you were seeing. Maps are drawn as planes, which means that it repeats while onscreen. The most common solution is a custom tilemap that draws the tiles as giant sprites instead.

 

[BlueScope]

While it doesn't contribute to solving your problem at all, I feel like making you aware of me testing this before... I wasn't really happy with the result, but neither with the default layout that would make the actor go all the way to the border of the screen/window when reaching a map's end. The best solution for this I found until today is to just make maps bigger by 20 tiles horizontally and 16 vertically, and map that area out as well... you therefore automatically get away from the default "place your area teleporters at the very edge of the maps", meaning you have to place them 10 tiles distant to the sides and 8 tiles distant to top or bottom for it to work.
It'll create a more natural feeling for the environment, as you never feel like "walking off the edge of the world". Of course, depending on your game, you might want to figure out a way to point out that the teleport zones are actually there, as the player won't be able to notice anymore then.