Problem with tile maps

TwilightHunter

Hey, I'm using a very simple function for a tile. Basically I just want the image to repeat when I stretch it, and I've used it before many times, I guess not with a recent update of GameSalad? I make my actor 146 x 146, and I go into Graphics and select Tile for Horizontal. It works fine in the GameSalad Preview, but when I go into my iTouch to test it, everything is all stretched, I'm guessing this was because the Vertical wrap was on stretch, so I switched that to Tile as well. It isn't stretched, it's shrunk in size and it's just odd looking now. Any help on why this is happening would be great! I just want to tile this ground sideways across the scene.

tenrdrmer

there have been some reported bugs about tiling with the iPhone 4. I personally have not had issues so not sure whats causing it, but that could be it. Also make sure your images are 72DPI

TwilightHunter

Yeah I made sure they were 72 DPI... and nothing is wrong inside the regular GS previewer just when I go to test on my iTouch. >.> I guess I'll try again tomorrow and see if it's cleared up.

BSideGames

Make sure your art is in the power of 2 (32,64,128,ect) I had to redo tons of art on my last game because of this.

MarkOnTheIron

Also remember that tiling images has problems when publishing with resolution independence checked.

Moreover you can't use hi-res images for the retina display when tiling. For example if you want to do a tiling of 12x8 tiles you have to use a 40x40 image, that will result in a 12x8 tiles on your game but it may look a little blurry on an iPhone 4. If you used a 80x80 image you would have obtained a 6x4 tiled image and it would have been still blurry.

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HoneyTribeStudios

So is there no way to have tiling if you want to use resolution independence?

I didn't use tiling in our first game but I'm thinking to use it a lot in the second.

TwilightHunter

Thanks, I'll try some of those things. Yeah I was planning on using alot of tile map for this game, I'll try the power of 2 thing.

TwilightHunter

It didn't work like that in my other game, I used alot of high resolution images and it just tiled them regularly

TwilightHunter

Setting the image size into the power of 2 worked! Thanks BSideGames! And everyone else that replied, thanks!!