Planned Features, Limitations

[MasterSwordUltima]

Holy shit. 16 layers seems incredibly unnecessary, but that is great. Opacity and tinting I can see adding one or two more layers (FF4/5 underwater layers, or fog), making for a maximum of maybe 6 layers. I guess with different opacity layers you wouldn't need Alpha blending, as you could almost achieve the same effect.

[Gleeok]

Yeah I know, sound ridiculous at first right? The way I see it is this: With any combination of layer color and blending modes (and possibly opengl shaders) there are so many crazy things you could do with tilemaps that I figured why not? I actually did the math on this though -- each layer between 320 and 1280 tiles rendered * 16 layers = 5,000 - 20,000 tiles. On modern hardware I should be able to push at least 60,000 tiles no problem. Though all the layers don't have to be visible at the same, at least.

[Imzogelmo]

when I first read it, my thought was that you may want to have "tile properties" be stackable and have 16 for that purpose. For instance, event triggers could be a "layer" (transparent but still a layer), warps could be a layer, etc. But I didn't consider the possibilities of tinting, partial opacitiy, etc. That makes it very interesting.

[CJC]

when I first read it, my thought was that you may want to have "tile properties" be stackable and have 16 for that purpose. For instance, event triggers could be a "layer" (transparent but still a layer), warps could be a layer, etc.

I love this idea!