Hello,

I'm currently have a problem with a 45° bevel in my Jump and Run. I use a tile map to coordinate the sprites but what is the easiest way to make the enemies and the guy walk on a bevel? I thought about a detection class but is there simple way to do it?

Hope anyone that can help me out?

Howdy,

If you are talking about sloping tiles, the math goes something like this:

First, take the change in Y (if your tiles are 32*32, then sloping up toward the right would be -32, while if you're sloping down as you go right, it would be 32), and divide it by the change in X (which would normally be -32, given 32*32 tiles). We'll call that the slope.

Now, with the slope figured, we can adjust the height of the object based on its X position. So, something like this:



Where "tile_object_is_on.X1" is the left-most point of the tile (i.e. object.X % 32), and "tile_object_is_on.Y1" would be the left-most point's elevation (tile_object_is_on.Y + 32 for an up-to-right slope, or tile_object_is_on.Y - 32 for a down-to-right slope).

Hopefully I explained it well enough (and got all my numbers right -- I'm no math scholar ). If you have any trouble or other questions, let us know!

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