2D tile map rendering - Best practices

[Kwyrky]

Hi everybody,

what is your approach when you are rendering a tile map and why did you chose to do so?

Maybe we could collect a few things here to get an overview of what to consider (for examle is the map to be rendered large or not. Do I need special effects…).

Do you prefer your own custom solution or an engine?

If you guys have found useful solutions for yourself that you want to share please do

[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 …

http://community.monogame.net/search?q=tile%20map

[Kwyrky]

Thanks, I guess thats an interesting thread there with a lot of useful information on that topic.

I thought this thread here could be an up to date overview of what the community is using and why. I think this would be interesting to know since this is a common topic in 2D.