Is constantly using TileMap:setTile a good idea?

Magnusviri

I'm playing with TileMap and my character interacts heavily with the tiles. Basically every move changes a tile. I'm wondering if there is some efficiency inside of TileMap that makes it preferable to using a lot of bitmaps. And is that efficiency defeated by changing the tiles constantly?

And most of my map is one tile, would it make sense to use a shape with texture fill and have the single tile in a texture with wrap turned on?

techdojo

What kind of framerates are you getting?

atilim

Also getTile/setTile are very fast operations.

Magnusviri

I haven't actually gathered framerate because there are so many different ways for me to do this. I'm porting BoulderDash and everything is a tile map in the source, even the characters. But I'm using TNT Animator to do the characters and so I'm already diverging. The different implementations would be different enough that I wanted to ask before I wrote the code. I'll go ahead and use getTile/setTile to implement the game logic and see how that goes.