Hi,
I want to make a tile based game for android. At the moment I am drawing each tile as a separate bitmap. I have a big for loop that reads from a string and draws different tiles depending on what character it finds to draw the level.
I have allowed the user to scroll the screen using scrolling gestures. However the game is too slow. It takes a long time to update the screen after the user scrolls. I presume this is because it has to draw each tile's bitmap individually.
What would be a faster way to draw the level? I was thinking I could merge all the tiles into one bitmap. But I don't know how to do this. Any ideas?
Anyway here is my code so you can see the problem:
package org.example.tutorial2d;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.GestureDetector;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.GestureDetector.OnGestureListener;
import org.example.tutorial2d.Panel;
public class Tutorial2D extends Activity implements OnGestureListener {
GestureDetector gestureScanner;
Panel main;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
gestureScanner = new GestureDetector(this);
//requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
main = new Panel(this);
setContentView(main);
}
@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent me)
{
return gestureScanner.onTouchEvent(me);
}
@Override
public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY)
{
main.handleScroll(distanceX,distanceY);
return true;
}
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@Override
public boolean onDown(MotionEvent e)
{
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onFling(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float velocityX, float velocityY)
{
return true;
}
@Override
public void onLongPress(MotionEvent e){ }
@Override
public void onShowPress(MotionEvent e) { }
@Override
public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e)
{
return true;
}
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}
And the class that does all the work:
package org.example.tutorial2d;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import org.example.tutorial2d.Point;
public class Panel extends View {
private int scrollX = 0;
private int scrollY = 0;
public Panel(Context context)
{
super(context);
}
@Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas)
{
/*Bitmap scratch;
//Drawable scratch;
//scratch = getContext().getResources().getDrawable(
// R.drawable.icon);
canvas.drawColor(Color.BLACK);
//scratch.draw(canvas);
int origin = 0;
scratch = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.horizontal5);
canvas.drawBitmap(scratch, origin, origin, null);
int width = scratch.getWidth();
int height = scratch.getHeight();
scratch = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.room4entrynesw3x3);
canvas.drawBitmap(scratch, origin + width, origin - 32, null);
*/
String sucide_mission =
" wwwww\n" +
" wfffw\n" +
" wfffw\n" +
" wfffw\n" +
" wwfww\n" +
" wfw\n" +
" wfw\n" +
" wfw\n" +
" wwwwwwwfwwwwwfw\n" +
" wfffffffffffffw\n" +
" wfwwwwwfwwwwwfw\n" +
" wwwww wfw wfw wfw\n" +
"wwwwwwfffwwwwwfwwwwwfwwwwwfw\n" +
"fffffffffffffffffffffffffffw\n" +
"wwwwwwfffwwwwwwwwwwwfwwwwwfw\n" +
" wwfww wfw\n" +
" wfw wfw\n" +
" wfw wfw\n" +
" wfw wfw\n" +
" wfw wfw\n" +
" wwfww wfw\n" +
" wfffwwfw fff\n" +
" wffffffw www\n" +
" wfffwwfw\n" +
" wwwww";
canvas.drawColor(Color.BLACK);
int x = 0, y = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < sucide_mission.length(); i++)
{
Bitmap tileImage;
char tile = sucide_mission.charAt(i);
Log.d("Draw tiles", Character.toString(tile) + " " + x + "," + y);
switch (tile)
{
case 'w':
if (x < tileImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.walla);
canvas.drawBitmap(tileImage, x - scrollX, y - scrollY, null);
x += 32;
break;
case 'f':
tileImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.floore);
canvas.drawBitmap(tileImage, x - scrollX, y - scrollY, null);
x += 32;
break;
case ' ':
x += 32;
break;
case '\n':
y += 32;
x = 0;
break;
}
}
//canvas.drawBitmap(adapt, 0, 0, paint);
//canvas.drawBitmap(corner, origin -scrollX , origin -scrollY, paint);
}
public void handleScroll(float distX, float distY)
{
// X-Axis ////////////////////////////////
if(distX > 6.0)
{
if(scrollX < 460)
{
scrollX += 30;
}
}
else if(distX < -6.0)
{
if(scrollX >= 30)
{
scrollX -= 30;
}
}
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// Y-AXIS //////////////////////////////////
if(distY > 6.0)
{
if(scrollY < 100)
{
scrollY += 30;
}
}
else if(distY < -6.0)
{
if(scrollY >= 30)
{
scrollY -= 30;
}
}
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if((scrollX <= 480) && (scrollY <= 120))
{
//adapt = Bitmap.createBitmap(bmp, scrollX, scrollY, 320, 480);
invalidate();
}
}
}