11-07-2007, 07:10 PM
Sonire Wrote:Seamless scrolling loads 9 maps around you. True seamless would also load surrounding NPCs, players, and items, and allow npcs to walk from map to map. So far there is no full tutorial for seamless scrolling.
One big map would be sharding. Sharding only loads the tiles that are visible on the game screen. It is possible to combine seamless and sharding, so that only visible tiles from the 9 surrounding maps get loaded.
Elysium has more what I would call "camera scrolling". As the maps are too big for the screen, so it only scrolls when you leave one edge of the map.
Just so you know, Mis already combined that with the seamless. The tut he posted, which is a optimization of Verrigan's tut, only loads the tiles shown.