Tiled - Good or bad?

[JayRay]

There is a script that is perfect for just this sort of layering limitation... By creating your layers of TiledMap and taking more than one screenshot, you're really not changing too much as far as file size, and with this script, you get a lower parallax (whihc you could later animate) a ground layer, a shadow layer, an upper parallax layer, and light or fog layers... Here's the script (don't want to post the full script without permission, but)

http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=48231) - HK's Ultimate Overlay Script (FOR VX)
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?...y-mapping/ (FOR VX ACE)

Combine this with Yanfly's Tile Lock Parallax to add even another layer... (Animated water streams or lava pools at more than 32x32?) Possible here.


Oh yes, the grid is something, but tile areas for that grid can be changed... one grid is 32x32, while another ground detailing grid is 64x64, then say I want all my houses to be prerendered and be around 384 x 256, I can set the ofset and overlay them perfectly...

Also, all the tiles have a built in Zbuffer, so if you're doing a forest scene for instance, and have a tree whose trunk might be within that 32x32 pixel but is like 256 pixels tall (8 tiles), you can still place it on the map layer, and notmatter if you place it first or last, it automatically organizes it according to the horizontal z buffer (I love that)