I think Arowin is saying that there are sprites that equal an area larger then 3-4 hexes so drawing that many hexes outside the map still wont touch the base hex, hence the sprite STILL wouldnt be drawn because it''s so far away. I think thats what hes saying.

Arowin couldnt you just break the building up a little. Shorter pieces and just align those up to form the building so part of it would be drawn? Each smaller piece would have a base hex and the clipping method would probably work then.

Well, generally how about this:

First layer is Screen layer

Second layer is your Pre-Draw Layer.

Yout biggest sprite is, say 10 Tiles each direction.

So make your second layer +6 (10/2 + 1 for safety, ) Tiles in each direction and you should always have your Base Tile on that map.

|------------------||                  ||  |------|    2   ||  |   1  |        ||  |------|        ||                  ||------------------|

1 = Screen Layer (Screen size)
2 = Pre-Draw Layer (Well, bigger. )

Would prolly use less memory and time than putting in dependencies... (I think, at least)


Well, gotta go...


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But my Aim is improving!

Edited by - OutOfBound on July 25, 2001 8:54:34 AM

Yeah, I suppose I could.
I wonder why I hadn''t thought of that

Thanks fellas