Interactive Tilemaps?

Zing

Hello, I want a Tilemap of all the power-ups in my platfromer game. Each power-up has a different effect on the player, how can I use Tilemaps in this case? Or would it be better to use an Area2D node?

cybereality

I believe tilemaps are for the level itself. If you are talking about dynamic objects: enemies, health packs, etc. you would probably use an area2d with a sprite inside for the graphic. Then you could manually place them in the editor.

Zing

@cybereality said: Then you could manually place them in the editor.

Is there a faster way than manually placing them? Would making a "spawner" tilemap be a good solution? Or is there another way of doing this that would be better?

cybereality

To be honest, I'm not sure. I haven't done too much 2D in Godot, I've mostly been testing 3D stuff. However, I did a quick search and found something that looks promising.

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/6vg5v8/using_tilemaps_for_more_advanced_objects/

Basically, you would create fake dummy tiles for your interactive objects and add them when you draw your tilemap. Then on load you iterating through the tiles and and on the ones with the dummy tiles you can swap in for enemies or power-ups or whatever.