moving through a infinite self-repeating map

[troshinsky]

Hi,

This is a simple problem I´m not sure how to approach.

I´m making a top-down view game where you should be able to move infinitely in any direction. The map is randomly generated, it also generates copies of the map around it so it repeats as a tile. When you reach a border of the map you jump to the opposite border. It works nicely except for the fact that having the scrolling centerd on the character, when the jump happens all the sprites in the screen blink for one frame while being redrawn. Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you very much!

[willy]

If you are approaching it this way you have to make a seamless border. The top screen has to be a natural continuation to the bottom screen ect. which might be a little difficult if it's randomly generated.

Maybe simplify the outer border visuals to a grass plane or something.

Edit:

Silly me, you weren't having that problem where you.

On your blinking sprites, go to properties - runtime options and set "Inactive if too far from the window to "no". Maybe that'll work.

If not, try tinkering with the other check boxes in the runtime options, I've forgotten what most of them do.

[troshinsky]

Ok, that works!

Thanks, haven't thought it might be that, that was easy.
And yeah, the borders do look seamless, so no problem with that.

Thanks again.