Project: Paper2D

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Tile maps are still experimental in 4.7 (primarily due to lack of proper collision generation) but they are much improved over previous versions.

However, system was not designed (and never will be) for a 10k x 10k map, that is an absurd size (400 M vertices for a fully populated map; I’m actually amazed it didn’t crash OOM). I’d expect for most games to use maps on order of 30x20 to 100x100 tiles, and use multiple maps where necessary to handle larger areas. culling system for UE4 works on a per-component basis, so you won’t be getting any culling for invisible tiles on a map that is much larger than could ever be seen at once.

Cheers,

You are absolutely right with , but i went a little overboard because most of issues i used to have with paper2d were only occurring with large numbers of anything so first thing i do when i get my hands on something new that you created is to test it in extreme conditions . Better safe than sorry! And to my defense it did not occur to me that painting a tile had anything to do with map size.How little do i know :o

Would it be possible to create a very small and basic tutorial on how to use tilemaps? What benefits they have against normal sprites (batch rendering maybe?Less vram?) or what disadvantages ? Maybe Give us some sort of pro tips?