Day 6 of the Level Editor project

I decided that I would make the level scrollable today, so that tiles could be placed outside the first screen.

In game.h, we define two new variables

unsigned int currentPosX;
unsigned int currentPosY;

which we set to zero in the Initialize method. These variables will store the current position in the world, where x,y = 0,0 is the bottom-left corner.

We need to consider this position whenever we work with coordinates of tiles. So in the Update method, we have to write:

case Solid:

newElement->coordX0 += currentPosX;

newElement->coordX1 += currentPosX;

newElement->coordY0 += currentPosY;

newElement->coordY1 += currentPosY;

level.push_back(newElement);

break;

and evaluate the keypresses:

if (g_keys->keyDown[VK_UP])

{

currentPosY++;

}

if (g_keys->keyDown[VK_DOWN])

{

if (currentPosY > 0) currentPosY--;

}

if (g_keys->keyDown[VK_LEFT])

{

if (currentPosX > 0) currentPosX--;

}

if (g_keys->keyDown[VK_RIGHT])

{

currentPosX++;

}

For the Draw method, we define two auxiliary methods to compute the correct coordinates:

unsigned int Game::TransformX(unsigned int x0)

{

GlobalStatics globalStatics;

if (x0 < currentPosX)

{

x0 = 0;

}

else

{

x0 -= currentPosX;

if (x0 > globalStatics.worldX) x0 = globalStatics.worldX;

}

return x0;

}

unsigned int Game::TransformY(unsigned int y0)

{

GlobalStatics globalStatics;

if (y0 < currentPosY)

{

y0 = 0;

}

else

{

y0 -= currentPosY;

if (y0 > globalStatics.worldY) y0 = globalStatics.worldY;

}

return y0;

}

Then we write in the Draw method:

case Solid:

glColor3f(1.0f, 0.8f, 0.2f);

glBegin(GL_QUADS);

glVertex2f(TransformX(i->coordX0), TransformY(i->coordY0));

glVertex2f(TransformX(i->coordX1), TransformY(i->coordY0));

glVertex2f(TransformX(i->coordX1), TransformY(i->coordY1));

glVertex2f(TransformX(i->coordX0), TransformY(i->coordY1));

glEnd();

These transform methods help us clip the tiles.

In the SaveLevel method we also have to compute the size of the level based on the coordinates of the tiles:

for (auto const& i : level)

{

levelSizeX = max(levelSizeX, i->coordX1);

levelSizeY = max(levelSizeY, i->coordY1);

}

That should do it.