Game Mechanics (solved) Problems with wall appearance

[Megaskizzen]

Hello!

So this game I'm making involves having a whole house in a single game room. I'm using a grid to hold each position's tile, with each position in the grid being taken up by a map that will hold things like texture, tile type, the room it's part of, etc.

It looks something like this:

As you can see, the wall graphics end up being 3 tiles tall and it clutters the rooms. It's hard to see where the side doorways are and the bottom two rows are blocked.

I'd like to have a mechanic where when you walk into a room the left, bottom, and right walls are hidden, leaving only the top wall( not including the corner tiles). I'm unsure of how I'd do this. Any ideas?

 

[Yal]

One idea is to only ever create wall objects when there's no floor directly above them. After all, such walls will only ever get in the way.

 

[Megaskizzen]

One idea is to only ever create wall objects when there's no floor directly above them. After all, such walls will only ever get in the way.

Yes, however this game will require you to see things hanging on the walls. Given that some rooms may be directly in front of others, that formula may not work perfectly.

However, You did give me the good idea to only draw the back wall. Should make everything less cluttered in general.

EDIT: Alright, changed the walls.

(ugh placeholder graphics)

Now if there were a room one tile in front of this one, touching only the doorway, how would I make its back wall disappear to not obscure the bottom row of this room?

 

[itameio]

you can use collision events with the character perhaps?. put a trigger object on the entrance to the room and use variables (or global varibales) to make it hide certain walls, that's all i can think of at the moment.

 

[Yal]

Now if there were a room one tile in front of this one, touching only the doorway, how would I make its back wall disappear to not obscure the bottom row of this room?

Couldn't you make all vertical passageways (at least) 3 tiles tall so that the issue never would actually show up? That seems like the easiest solution to me.

 

[Megaskizzen]

Couldn't you make all vertical passageways (at least) 3 tiles tall so that the issue never would actually show up? That seems like the easiest solution to me.

*facepalms*

well it should be 2 tiles since the height of the wall graphic has now decreased. Can't believe I didn't see this.
Thanks anyway, at least someone realized it!

 

[Megaskizzen]

Got it!
I only made the top two tiles tall because every room will overlap one tile on their edges, so the overall top + bottom doorway will be two tiles. Thanks again, Yal!

 

[Yal]

No problems :3
I think there's a 'solved' prefix, but... no point in using that when it's in the title, I guess. I assume most GMC members can read