08-09-2006, 02:56 AM
I imagine you can make it bigger that your maps, I just know that it for sure cuts off the right and bottom tiles and and anything else that is supposed to be blt'd to the screen if your picScreen is too small width or height wise.
EDIT: I'll test it and post results
RESULTS:
Well I tested simply drawing a map, running the game, walking to the edges of the screen etc. It works like it's supposed to.
I then resized the picScreen to "unofficially" add another row of tiles... I could not walk on those tiles. Making the picScreen smaller does exactly what I said it would. The character appears to walk off the screen, but with a long name, you can see that is simply walking onto the tiles that are there, but cannot be seen as a result of the picScreen being too small.
I tried drawing a map on the "unoffically" added tiles, and the map editor will not allow drawing.
So all-in-all, my tests only proved what I allready know. Changing the size of picScreen only effects what is displayed, and what is not. The variable checking that was added to the source code prevents any errors from occuring, so what's why your character would be disappearing off the screen without any real debug info. In the compiler's eyes, there is nothing wrong with the code, and since the tile exists in code, it will place the character on them anyways, even though the tile cannot be visually seen.
Now with the scrolling maps, as said above... if you know how to modify it slightly, you can have bigger maps than your picScreen, you just need to know how to display them... and unfortunately I don't lol.
I hope this helps explain some things for you.
EDIT: I'll test it and post results
RESULTS:
Well I tested simply drawing a map, running the game, walking to the edges of the screen etc. It works like it's supposed to.
I then resized the picScreen to "unofficially" add another row of tiles... I could not walk on those tiles. Making the picScreen smaller does exactly what I said it would. The character appears to walk off the screen, but with a long name, you can see that is simply walking onto the tiles that are there, but cannot be seen as a result of the picScreen being too small.
I tried drawing a map on the "unoffically" added tiles, and the map editor will not allow drawing.
So all-in-all, my tests only proved what I allready know. Changing the size of picScreen only effects what is displayed, and what is not. The variable checking that was added to the source code prevents any errors from occuring, so what's why your character would be disappearing off the screen without any real debug info. In the compiler's eyes, there is nothing wrong with the code, and since the tile exists in code, it will place the character on them anyways, even though the tile cannot be visually seen.
Now with the scrolling maps, as said above... if you know how to modify it slightly, you can have bigger maps than your picScreen, you just need to know how to display them... and unfortunately I don't lol.
I hope this helps explain some things for you.