Snap to the Correct Position with Tilemaps

Hi Everyone!

What I'm trying to achieve is to make a tangram-like game, where you drop the objects and you have to "complete" the whole area.

The problem I'm facing at the momment is to make the draggable objects, snap to the correct position when they are dropped nearby.

At the momment I have the box as a tilemap and each draggable object as a tilemap as well (some have 1 tile, others 2 tiles or more).

What's the best way to achieve this?

PS: In the game logic I'm using a family to group all the draggable objects. In the game, I painted the graphics so the game can't be identified later on.

Thanks in advance!

Here, look at this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/meht4jikuks8b ... .capx?dl=0

Thanks a lot Tim, but I didn't find it very useful because I don't have any anchors ... the users must be able to place the objects wherever they want inside the white box. I'm starting to believe I can't do this with Construct 2.

Anything can be done with Construct 2 !

Anything can be done with Construct 2 !

Amazing, Amazing, Amazing! Thank you so much!

Magitross, I'm changing the tile sizes, is there anything I should worry about? I have changed the conditions on the event sheet and the tilemaps. However when I drop the objects they always return to the startposition. Does this have anything to with the tilemaps?

Figured it out! Thanks!

I forgot to mention that I was using the tile id 9 as an empty space, my bad !

No problem, I figured it out

Hi again!

How hard would it to be to dynamically resize the tilemaps? My idea is to have the original objects in a smaller size and expand to the real size them once they are picked up.

I have tried to reduce the width and height however that messes up with the tilemaps.

Thanks in advance!

That's tricky, tilemaps aren't scaled with its size, they simply expand/shrink the area on which to draw tiles on. However, layer scaling still apply. I guess you could fiddle with a layer scaled down, on which you place your objects. On drag start, move them to the unscaled layer. Be sure to put them back on the scaled layer when they return to their original position.

Magistross Thanks is just what I wanted

PD: The Seamless Mode was wrong, I put it off and perfect, not to serve this option, but works just off

you should SO make a tutorial and explain all this step by step great concept for puzzle game and other things.

no other way than tittlemap? small tiles and does not leave the drawing as sprite.

if I want to boxed bigger? http://i61.tinypic.com/2ilc582.jpg