Ok, there's no slow down with variables. I am working with approximately 20 or 30 instances of the same sprite, yet, as you say, just calculating when a 'chess' moves. They'd rather have instance variables for each one? I am no used at all with playing with instances and their behaviour. Every piece of help is most welcome

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Now I have it already simplified. It will be played on mobile and I want the arrow to show up just when touching and then freeze, so changed the every tick condition with On tap on tilemap. Removed variables and everything seems to work fine. Thanks so much!!!

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You're right. I thought stable R120 had already C3 as default runtime. Turns out I was wrong. Bye to every Rex plugin... I'm going to miss MoveTo.

Is there any issue with the new beta releases? When launching them, almost every non built-in plugin is not available to insert. If I go back to the stable release, they are available. But not with R123 nor 123.2. I don't know whether is a matter of compatibility bug or is made on purpose for future releases? Maybe I should reinstall those plugins after updating to the beta?

It's been a while since nobody talked here, but I have a similar issue. Trying not to fill the forum with duplicated topics.

I am developing a strategy board war game, Civilization/AoE like. The board is a tilemap.

You select which troop to move by pressing/clicking on the instance and then dragging/clicking/pressing on the destination tile.

After you have selected the active troop, I would like an arrow to be shown from the troop towards the destination tile. So, if you get further from the troop, the arrow lengthens.

I have read people doing similar thing by changing the animation, yet that would require having, let's say 10 differents sprites, each one a tile longer, just for that. Is it not possible to call a specific frame of the animation according to position? Being that the case, I could just have an arrow sprite, being each frame an arrow a tile longer.

Well, then I'll just discard the tile by tile animation. No worries about that. Just a visual floriture. I'll stick to press/click on instance and then press/click on target tile.

I just have a doubt about tile movement to see whether it can be useful for this project. When calculating the grid for the movement, does it takes the position of the instance and from there, it 'counts' grids according to the size you set? Or it virtually divides the layout in a grid and then calculates to which tile belongs the position of the instance? I don't know if I am succeding at explaining myself.

Already a bit confused about the possible usages with tile movement and tilemap. I know you can have tile movement effect with this plugin without using tilemap. But, since tilemap allows for several movement/positions options (move to # tile, to neighbour, positiontotile,...), I think I don't need tile movement plugin either if I already have a tilemap. Or do I? I asked for documentation because there may be some conditions/actions/expressions which suit better my game than the ones that tilemap offers. If moved more/less than # tiles, if moved in a certain direction,... and things alike.

Ok here we go!! Thanks very much. Smartphone didn't allow me to press and drag to select several tiles alltogether either. It showed the typical menu for copying, pasting... Now I have the map done.

Is there already some documentation for the tile movement plugin? I am try to use it with drag&drop, but at the time of draging, the movement is smooth, not 'tiled'. I thought working around it on the event sheet.

Something like: On drop > save position, then move troop instance to origin position, then move to loaded position. So to speak...

Anyway, it's quite unelegant and even whrn dragging, the troop instance keeps moving smoothly as your finger slides over the screen. I would like to see the instance moves tile by tile even at the very moment of dragging. Is it posible?

Oh god, that was it. It's me using my smartphone, instead of the PC. When you open the tilemap tab, the layout is not on the screen, so I never though it that way- clicking in the tab, then onto the layout. I am starting to work on PC for preventing this sort of misunderstanding.

Moreover, I didn't quite understand the purpose of the tileset at all. Now I do. You load every different tile grouped in the tileset and then pick which tiles go where. I am no native english speaker, so some words don't ring my bell as they should. Being tileset what you edit in the tab, not tilemap, now it seems so obvious.

Sorry for the loss of time, but again thanks a lot for you have gave me some hints of how to work around it. Lots of tutorials to read, now that I can move on.

Not sure if I am asking nonsense again but- tiled background loops the same sprite. Tilemap lets you assign certain sprites (tiles actually, but for the sake of analogy). Is there a way of loading a picture, as per the tileset, and move every tile to the layout in the same order they are in the loaded picture? It would be the same as when you set up the grid onto the layout in the properties bar. But locking that grid to make it visible in prev and game. If you take a look at my map, there are to be several tiles and I want the layout to look exactly like my map, just with a grid.