Sprites - Textures from Tilesets - Working with a lot of images

neronekro

Hello there,

i have a lot of images and don't want create a "ress"-file for every image. So my idea was to use a tileset with all the images. Now I want use this images from a tileset in sprites, texturebuttons or texturerects. What is the best solution? It have to be flexible in GDScripts. I want to change the images at runtime.

At first I had loaded all images from a directory: var directory = Directory.new() directory.open(path+dir) directory.list_dir_begin() all_images[dir] = {"name": dir, "img": []}

But this won't work on a mobiles devices, because of missing files. At the moment I use over 150 Images and it will be in future much more.

Best Regards

cybereality

I believe you can only load files that are part of the project, not just loose files from the file system. It should work on mobile, I think, but the images do need to be imported into Godot.

neronekro

@cybereality said: I believe you can only load files that are part of the project, not just loose files from the file system. It should work on mobile, I think, but the images do need to be imported into Godot.

Thank you, but that is clear to me. But I am currently looking for the best way to easily use all the images. I can't manage to access the individual tilesets with a sprite and get error messages. Do I now have to capture each individual image as a resource and load it into an array in a script file?

cybereality

Can you explain more about what you are trying to do? I'm not sure I understand.

neronekro

@cybereality said: Can you explain more about what you are trying to do? I'm not sure I understand.

yes sure. i would like to create a memory game. The pictures in the game should have different topics. Further there are 40 pictures available per topic and these should be randomly selected when the game starts.

Before the game starts the user can choose his topic and the number of cards. When selecting the topic, a picture should be displayed as an example, so that it can be seen which category it is.

Some topic examples: images of cats, dogs, comics and so on.

Later I want to add more topics.

I thought that tilesets for this game would actually be ideal. A tileset with all the images and easy to add. but unfortunately I can not assign images from the tileset to the texturerects and the sprites.

cybereality

So tilesets would not be used for this. Tilemaps are for 2D, usually platformers like Mario. For something like you are doing, you'd use Sprites. But you can load an image on a sprite with multiple "tiles" in it. So you could make an image with 40, (or whatever) images inside arranged on a grid (x and y don't have to be the same, but each inner image should have the same dimensions). Then set the hframes and vframes on the sprite and it will only show one particular image.

neronekro

@cybereality said: So tilesets would not be used for this. Tilemaps are for 2D, usually platformers like Mario. For something like you are doing, you'd use Sprites. But you can load an image on a sprite with multiple "tiles" in it. So you could make an image with 40, (or whatever) images inside arranged on a grid (x and y don't have to be the same, but each inner image should have the same dimensions). Then set the hframes and vframes on the sprite and it will only show one particular image.

Sorry for my late response. You solved my problem =)

Thank you