Neither of those things did any thing major, another thing I noticed (If you look at the picture you can see that there are 2 characters) It only gets a drop in fps when both my characters jump. I deleted 1 character and tested it with 1 guy and it ran 20-30 frames better. Btw its a direct x 9 game with no motion blur or any special stuff.

Edit: Also the screen is always shaking (not on purpose) i think this is because i have both main characters with the attributes center view.

So I finished my randomly generated platformer terrain.

http://www.moddb.com/members/figalot/images/caverns

But unfortunately when I generated the maps to the size which is needed to make the game fun makes the game lag. I tried optimizing it by making all blocks outside the camera invisible but i think the game is still rendering them. Any idea how i can make the game run better?

I actually have a pretty powerful computer so rule that out.

Click the out side of the map ( area ) look on the side bar look at application the hit properties ( just to the right ) scroll down.

Oh i found i problem that after about 30 minutes i cant figure out how to fix it... when i move the screen down the cursor(red box in your example) loses its place and eventually placed blocks totally miss were they are aimed at. I figured it out that it was the camera movement doing this, any ideas?

EDIT: nevermind i had the wrong scroll rate

Thank you so much Minor, this is exactly what i what.

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Thanks for the reply

But i had set this up ( thanks to random ) now i am trying to make my mouse ( wich will soon be a block symbol ) move on a 32/32 grid ...check the picture at the start.

Edit : also in order to place a block correctly i need to aim for the bottom left of were i want it to be or it jumps into the wrong grid...any fix for this?

I set it up but how do i find the image hot spot?

Also how can i set it so that my mouse must follow these same guidelines as i move it across the screen (So it must not stray from the 32x32 grid)?

I am making a 2d platformer that allows for the creation and destruction of blocks, but unfortunately i cant seem to make a grid (32x32) that limits the area that the blocks are placed at like the one featured here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/survivors- ... a#imagebox

any help or suggestions to do this would be appreciated.