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Posted on October 24, 2010 by kegogrog | 2 Comments

Terrain Modification in Grid Based Games – Appendix C: Shading and Bitmaps

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The following dialogue came up in the comments of Part 1 of this tutorial.

JJ: Could you show me a way to fill each tile of the map with a bitmap or some other graphic type? Is a solution possible based on using beginBitmapFill() ?
Me: What exactly do you want to achieve? Do you want to use graphics (imported or drawn in flash) for tiles? Or do you really want to fill the tile like texturing it?
JJ: I meant filling the tiles like texturing it.

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Posted on October 8, 2010 by kegogrog | 5 Comments

Terrain Modification in Grid Based Games – Appendix B: Shading

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Alright, giving the landscape some natural feeling by applying colors to the tiles. This simply fits into the dynamic drawing of tiles by using a fill. The shading here will be done with static colors instead of shadow calculation.
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