microsoft/pxt-tilemaps

MakeCode Arcade extension for handling multiple tilemaps and extra tilemap blocks - beta

Tilemaps

This extension contains advanced APIs for working with tilemaps in blocks.

Usage

createSpritesOnTiles

The ||tiles.createSpritesOnTiles|| block creates an empty sprite on top of each location with the specified tile. Combine this with ||sprites.onCreated|| to initialize the empty sprites with an image, position, etc.

Parameters

• tileKind is the image of the tile where sprites will be created
• spriteKind is the kind of sprite that will be created

Example 1

Create a small green box on each empty tile.

sprites.onCreated(SpriteKind.Enemy, function (sprite) {
    sprite.setImage(img`
        7 7 
        7 7 
        `)
})
tiles.setTilemap(tiles.createTilemap(hex`0400040000000000000000000000000000000000`, img`
. . . . 
. . . . 
. . . . 
. . . . 
`, [myTiles.transparency16], TileScale.Sixteen))

tiles.createSpritesOnTiles(myTiles.transparency16, SpriteKind.Enemy)

Create a project with this extension

This repository can be added as an extension in Microsoft MakeCode.

• open https://arcade.makecode.com/
• click on New Project
• click on Extensions under the gearwheel menu
• search for https://github.com/riknoll/overworld and click import

Edit this extension

To edit this repository in Microsoft MakeCode.

• open https://arcade.makecode.com/
• click on Import then click on Import URL
• paste https://github.com/riknoll/overworld and click import

Supported targets

• for PXT/arcade (The metadata above is needed for package search.)

Contributing

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pxt-tilemaps's Issues

Connections as "names" not "kinds"

In tilemap connections:

It should say "Add a new name..." not kind

context: https://forum.makecode.com/t/todays-tilemap-extension-stream-25-maybe/1766

Tile at [location] is [tile] loses tile preview

After reloading the /beta editor, the tile at [location] is [tile] block loses the preview.

Here's a screenshot of the block:

... and the corresponding JS:

The code runs correctly; it appears to be just the tile preview that is broken.

Add "On enter tile" block

Good for handling door code - an event that runs when we enter a tile

Walls and overlaps bug when switching tilemaps

This program: https://makecode.com/_H7siqoheuFhX
from arcade advanced stream 24

Repro:

1. walk through "D1"
2. Notice that in the next room the sprite can move through all the walls and cannot get back to the first room

Something is buggy about the tilemap overlap physics.

Add tileset field editor as a block to the toolbox

This repo is missing important files

There are important files that Microsoft projects should all have that are not present in this repository. A pull request has been opened to add the missing file(s). When the pr is merged this issue will be closed automatically.

Microsoft teams can learn more about this effort and share feedback within the open source guidance available internally.

Merge this pull request

You can't assign 'tilemap1' and 'tilemap2' to variables.

I don't know how to use the "connect (tilemap1) and (tilemap2) blocks to actual tilemaps. Instead, you can change the block to "Connect (tilemap) and (tilemap) with door going from X Y Z to X Y Z?" I don't know if this would be difficult to do, considering that this completeley changes the code block and may mess up some people's code, but if you could make it that would be cool! Thank you.
(P.S, the (tilemap) I refer to in this is the one used in the "set tilemap to (tilemap)" one.

Make "TileSprite" sprite kind visible

Currently the special TileSprite sprite kind isn't visible to the user, but we have user feedback that it would be useful to have access to it:

https://forum.makecode.com/t/remove-cover-overlay-from-tiles-on-tilemap/3390/2

Support 8x8 tilemaps

Fix tilemap load flicker for cover blocks

The tilemap will show the underlying tile for a hot second before covering it.

"Copy tilemap" doesn't copy walls

When getting a copy of a tilemap to not alter the original whenever you manually set a tile, it does not take into account wall configuration, and every wall placed/removed applies to the original tilemap which was copied, as opposed to just the copy.

Fix README

it's just copy and pasted from my old overworld extension.

Ensure "Spaceship Bugs" Stream 24 issues are fixed

In this stream: https://forum.makecode.com/t/arcade-advanced-stream-24-spaceship-bugs/1767

we ran into blocking bugs in pxt-tilemaps. Ensure these are documented and important ones fixed.

Able to "paste" tilemaps onto each other

A block maybe that would iterate over every tile in a tilemap that is passed in, and it would set it in the current tilemap. So then you don't need a hundred "set tile at location" blocks to "generate" stuff.

Add a way to cover a specific tile only

See: https://forum.makecode.com/t/remove-cover-overlay-from-tiles-on-tilemap/3390/2

We have user feedback that being able to cover only specific tiles would be useful.