Jono Shields - Detecting Map Tiles

GBAGameJam - Day 12

Okay. I did it!

I figured out how to get map data so I can start using tile data to figure out collisions.

So as before. We have our bg that we made..

bn::affine_bg_ptr map_bg = bn::affine_bg_items::map.create_bg(256, 256);

And I finally found out that you can call map_bg.map().cells_ref() to get the pointer to the cells of the map. You can then call .value() on it to get the actual data in a span (kind of like an array?).

So we can use map_bg.map().cells_ref().value() to get the cells and at(x) to get the cell at x. The map cells are a 1d array organised like this...

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

So I made a helper method to get the cell number of an x and y co-ord. Which ends up being something like this..

bn::fixed get_map_index(bn::fixed tile_x, bn::fixed tile_y, bn::fixed columns)
{
    return (tile_y * columns) + tile_x;
}

IMPORTANT NOTE : My actual code is not this pretty.

So now I am just logging the tile at my sprites co-ordinates, which works surprisingly well considering it isn't optimized at all and I have no idea what I am doing.

This will be the basis of collisions and I have a little hacky plan for making it easier for myself, but I will share it later.

I also took the time to add some text to show the current tile my player is over. The examples are really good for this.

For this I needed all of these..

#include "bn_string_view.h"
#include "bn_vector.h"
#include "bn_sprite_text_generator.h"

Plus the sprite font from the example... variable_8x16_sprite_font

And then the following..

// make a text generator using the font supplied, you can use your own images for your own font if you want
bn::sprite_text_generator text_generator(variable_8x16_sprite_font);

// sets the text horizontally in the centre
text_generator.set_center_alignment();

// make a vector to store pointers to the sprites we are using
bn::vector<bn::sprite_ptr, 32> text_sprites;

// and then in our loop..

while (true)
{
    // clear the previous frames text
    text_sprites.clear();

    // generate the new text
    text_generator.generate(0, -40, currentCell, text_sprites);

    bn::core::update();
}

Pretty happy with what I have acheived today. Can rest easy tonight.

Oh. Also todays tag -> day-12

OMG. Almost forgot the most important thing. I learned how to cast integers to strings.

bn::to_string<32>(my_integer);

And tonight I have homework reading the following about pointers...