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- jobel
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congrats! looks great.. downloading now!
- jobel
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mekonbekon oh yes I noticed that placing didn't work.. I was only used the initial build part. all good thanks!
mOOnpunk that's strange I looked everywhere for something like this... I hate to sound like a broken record but the website: forums, store, online doc etc.. have some of the worst search tools and make it extremely difficult to find things... its far worse than the old scirra.com - I can't tell you the number of times I've been burned or wasted time because the search is so bad.
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- jobel
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dop2000 I like that.. and I have it working great! and thanks again!
- jobel
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I think I found a bug in the loop. It was looping for the Width and Height of the entire tilemap in pixels, not cells... once I changed it to 8x4 it ran super fast. The width/height was 775x405 so I think that's why it was taking so long!
- jobel
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dop2000 nevermind, I think I found a bug in the loop. It was looping for the Width and Height of the entire tilemap in pixels, not cells..
thanks, your capx helped me figure that out!
- jobel
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actually dop2000 yours has no delay when refreshing the tilemap - is maybe because data comes from an Array opposed to AJAX>DDict? there is a very noticeable 1-2 second delay when refreshing the tilemap - not to mention the entire game freezes while its delayed.

see code here: construct.net/out
- jobel
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so one thing about this way of doing it. When you refresh the entire tilemap it takes a few seconds to loop through everything. When placed in a game there's quite a delay. Did you experience this as well? It's something I could hide with a "loading.." icon but it just seems strange since no other calculation I do ever take that long and the game freezes while its happening...
- jobel
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dop2000 thanks that's basically what mekonbekon showed me in that linked thread so I'm all set thanks! I knew there was a better way! thanks forum!
- jobel
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this is simply amazing. you are basically doing my work for me!

very much appreciate the share!

you should make an addon from this and sell it in the store!
- jobel
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btw mekonbekon this article gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-tile-bitmasking-to-auto-tile-your-level-layouts--cms-25673 is gold! thanks again!
- jobel
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oh wow.. I didn't know it was called that (bitmasking - just updated the title of this thread), but it makes sense.. this seems to be on the path I need. thanks for this mekonbekon! now if I can just wrap my head around it!
- jobel
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when you say "skip ahead" it sounds like you are saying events have already happened. But essentially with timescale you are just speeding everything up.

You can set the timescale for a specific object using System>Set Object Timescale if that helps.