Question about tilemaps

PabloDev

Hi, suppose you have a for loop, this loop does X things, you want the result to be seen on the screen in each iteration of the loop, so that if the loop does 30 iterations, it will take 30 frames to do it, in each frame you will see the Result of the iteration on the screen. So how to make each iteration of the loop display the result? The normal thing is that the loop does everything at once but I look for what I say. Someone knows?. Suppose that what the loop does is put a tile in a tilemap, then it will look like each tile is put frame by frame until all 30 are put.

TwistedTwigleg

If I am understanding correctly, you just need to track how many times _process has been called, as _process is called once per frame. To do something every frame, similar to a loop, you could try something like this (untested):

var loop_count = 0
var is_looping = true
var maximum_number_of_loops = 30

func _process(delta):
	if (is_looping == true):
		# do thing here!
		print (“Loop Number: “, loop_count)
		loop_count += 1
		if (loop_count >= maximum_number_of_loops):
			is_looping = false

So for a tile map, instead of #do thing here, you could place a tile, and that should add a tile for every frame until all 30 tiles have been placed! (You will need to calculate the position of the tiles though, using loop_count or something)