Call_deferred with procedural TileMap

Horz

Hi there, I received a script through a tutorial. In this, a 2D map is procedurally filled with tiles. Some of the tiles have a collision shape.

In the next function (called with call_deferred)

var space_state = get_world_2d (). direct_space_state

and

var occlusion = space_state.intersect_ray (player_center, test_point)

checked on sight for the visibility.map.

Unfortunately, that didn't work until I built in a yield before the call_deferred call:

yield (get_tree (). create_timer (0.01), "timeout") call_deferred ("update_visuals")

My question: Can I somehow wait for the tilemap to be created? The yield solution seems ugly to me.

cybereality

How are you creating the tilemap? Maybe just wait a few frames before checking it.

Horz

The TileMap is an Tilemap-Node with Tiles (Wall, Door, etc)

Script: The tile names are in an enum.

enum Tile {Wall, Door, Floor, Ladder, Stone}

The tile_map is a reference to the Node

onready var tile_map = $ TileMap

Then with

tile_map.set_cell (x, y, Tile.stone)

for example the numerical value of the stone written into the tile_map.

At first the whole map is filled with stone-tiles, after that rooms and floors are placed.

the visbilityMap is completely filled with black tiles and then with a successful intersect_ray the black tile is removed by -1. (see Line 362 in the code-screen)

Without a yield nearly one-half of the screen was visible (black tiles removed from the visibilityMap) - with the yield everything looks fine. I would prefer not to wait for an approximate amount of time that only fits my system. I would prefer a specific call of the update_visuals function when the work is finished.

cybereality

That seems strange. Maybe the call deferred is your problem. Unless you are using threads, everything is synchronous, so if you call one function after creating the tilemap it should be ready.