Level editor?

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Boiled Sweets (Posted 2004) [#1]

Hi, just wondering what methods people use to create level editors for a tile type game. I have written one for my game, I'm using a 5 * 2000 array of quads to draw the tiles but even on my 9700 Pro I get 29 FPS. If I drop the entities to say 5 * 300 then the FPS shoots up. I guess it's the sheer number of surfaces causing the problem. I was thinking of trying to use images or sprites but I'm gonna hit the same problem. Any thoughts?

Warren (Posted 2004) [#2]

Have you considered only drawing the tiles that are visible?

Boiled Sweets (Posted 2004) [#3]

Well I was using the camerarange() to limit it but seems to make no difference whatsoever.

Warren (Posted 2004) [#4]

You should just recreate the quads each frame and only create the ones you can actually see. That would speed everything up right quick ...

Ross C (Posted 2004) [#5]

You could also use a single surface approach. :)