What's the higheest amount of layes in a 2d game have you gone up to?

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Started by Andrew Nguyen December 28, 2001 06:07 PM

3 comments, last by Andrew Nguyen 23 years ago

Andrew Nguyen

Author

150

December 28, 2001 06:07 PM

Me, 3 whata bout you? The layer 1 was for the terrain, 2 was for items, and 3 is for the npcand characters.

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DavidRM

270

December 28, 2001 09:48 PM

Let''s see...for Artifact there were...

1. Base-level terrains
2. Terrain transitions
3. Cities
4. Facilities
5. Detail icons for the facilities (workers, damage, etc.)
6. Grid lines and fog-of-war
7. Military units and misc

DavidRM
Samu Games

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Hase

313

December 29, 2001 12:31 AM

lets see...

2 foreground
1 main
1 game objects
2 immediate bg
1 far bg
1 fix bg
2 cloud layers

something like that... it was for !Purple, which should be somewhere in the GD showcase.

Ronin_54

122

December 29, 2001 04:49 AM

parallax 1
parallax 2
parallax 4
background
1-255 for structures and all and character.

Soo... hmmm... 255 + 4 = .... 259?

-Maarten Leeuwrik
"Some people when faced with the end of a journey simply decide to begin anew I guess."

AndyMan

148

December 31, 2001 04:57 PM

In my game, the draw function for each object put draw innstructions into a tree sorted by z-value, so things could appear in any order. Any number of different z values could be used.