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joh78-boys
Hello,
I am new to game development but have had prior experience with programs such as Processing and using games made with the software to change it up for practice on coding.
Currently, I am trying to make a game where the maps will have square tiles that are interactive, and the basic thing I need to resolve is making reproducible tiles where the player clicks on a specific tile(say the tile/sprite is black and all the others are white) and then when it clicks on another tile that is not the same as the one it clicked on(such as a tile that is white) it turns that tile black and the one that was previously black, white.
I also wanted to know if I could incorporate these properties into a tilemap so I can get that reproducible and easy placement property for the tiles on a scene.
You can modify tiles in a TileMap, but each tile doesn’t have more information than their ID. So if you want cells to change, you can set a different tile ID.
Here is an example of how you can interact:
extends Node
onready var _tilemap : TileMap = get_node("Tilemap")
func _input(event):
if event is InputEventMouseButton:
if event.button_index == BUTTON_LEFT:
if event.pressed:
# Get which tile is under the mouse
var mouse_pos = _tilemap.get_local_mouse_position()
var cell_pos = _tilemap.world_to_map(mouse_pos)
var tile_id = _tilemap.get_cellv(cell_pos)
var tile_name = _tilemap.tile_set.tile_get_name(tile_id)
# Do stuff according to the above
if tile_name == "white":
# For example, turn the tile into a black tile when clicked
var black_tile_id = _tilemap.tile_set.find_tile_by_name("black")
_tilemap.set_cellv(cell_pos, black_tile_id)
For more complex behavior, usually people go around that by overlaying actual nodes over their tilemap (sprites, particles…) or storing extra states in a dictionary indexed by tile position.
