Tilemap or Snap-To-Grid?

Hi everyone,

I've got this question on my mind and hope you can help me

I'm currently in the process of designing a platformer. I'm using the tilemap object to draw the levels quickly and as far as I understand it from this article {scirra.com/blog/ashley/3/tech-blog-tilemap-tidbits}, that's quite an effective way to go. But the beginneres tutorial for platformers {scirra.com/blog/ashley/3/tech-blog-tilemap-tidbits}uses single snap-to-grid objects to create the levels.

Actually, you can achieve the exact same level design result with both techniques.

My question is: Which of these ways is more performance friendly? I'm using a 96x96 grid for the tilemap at the moment:

I'll gladly take any answer and advice on this topic

dhoeke

I'm also doing platformer games. Use TileMap for better performance.

Based on what I see, you seem to be doing it pretty efficiently. The ground should be tilemap like you have, and the larger objects like the ice and trees should be background sprites.

I think the platformer tutorial was written before tilemaps were introduced into C2, which could be causing some of the confusion.

Great looking sprites btw!

tumira ryanrybot

Thank you!!

Then I'll proceed with tilemap + background/forground sprites.

(Why does linking to tumira work, but not to ryanrybot???)

ryanrybot

Thank you, too. Don't know how that mention BB code works atm.