2D tile map rendering - Best practices

[willmotil]

Nested for-loop to draw 2d grid. Minus the empty tiles?

Hello! I have a pretty extensive tile engine going. I have parallaxing layers, each with a single large tile-grid (2d array of “Tiles”) which extends the full size of the layer… So background layers, which are scaled to look far away, have many tiles visible at any given time, many of which are just empty space for player traversal, ie have nothing to draw. My problem is, I feel like it taxes the system too hard to run draw-calls on every tile (in a nested for-loop style setup) even if there …

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