Question - Code [Solved]Is this possible with tiles?

[Gamer-15]

Hi,

I have a block which consist of an inner fill sprite and an outer glow sprite:


The image below uses sprites:

Now I am trying to optimise the speed by using tiles instead of sprites. For the inner fill sprite I have this already set up.
But for the outer glow sprite I have difficulties getting it working, because the sprite boxes of the glow overlap:

Is it possible to use tiles for the outer glow?

 

[Slyddar]

You might be best off just adding the glow section as separate tiles. You won't be able to do autotile with the glow, but if you made it as a separate tileset you could autotile the main and just manually insert the glow tiles afterwards.

 

[kburkhart84]

In GMS1 you could overlap tiles just fine, but with GMS2 tiles can't overlap on the same grid like that. GMS2 has what it calls "assets" which are something between objects and tiles. They use animated sprites and can be placed around your rooms similar to the way tiles used to be in GMS1, but they can be animated too. They don't have any overhead like objects do though. Maybe you could do your glow lines with that?!

 

[Miradur]

Hi, replace the water in these tiles with your glow line and do it with autotile.
Here is the link to an example image:

https://www.google.at/imgres?imgurl...9vbAhUxxKYKHQK7BRkQMwhIKAkwCQ&iact=mrc&uact=8

Miradur

 

[Gamer-15]

Thanks for the replies.
I found a solution for the overlapping glowing tiles. I made the glow sprites 2 times the size of the inner fill bock size (by just adding extra transparent pixels around the glow sprites). Then I made the tile set from the sprites. Then I used 4 tilemaps for the glowing tile set to cover all cells of the inner fill grid: 1 set for x=odd y=odd, 1 for x=even y=odd, 1 for x=odd y=even and 1 for x=even y=even. The tilemaps are set with an offset for the origin of the glow sprite that I used + the inner fill size if x,y is odd. Then when creating the blocks the code check with (x mod 2 == 0) and (y mod 2 == 0) to determine which tilemap to set.