Legacy:Functions/Map

Map and map engine control

• MapEngine(map_filename, fps): Start the map engine at map_filename at speed fps.
• GetCurrentMap(): Get the filename of the loaded map.
• ChangeMap(map_filename): Change the current map of the map engine.
• IsMapEngineRunning(): Check if the map engine is running or not.
• UpdateMapEngine(): Update state of map entities, animations and events in map engine.
• ExitMapEngine(): Flag the map engine to exit on the next update.

• RenderMap(): Draw all map layers and persons to the back buffer.
• GetMapEngineFrameRate(): Get the frames per second the map engine is running at.
• SetMapEngineFrameRate(fps): Change map engine frame rate.
• SetColorMask(color, frames): Draws color over the map engine for frames duration.

Map object

• Sphere Map object: Holds map data.

• GetMapEngine(): Obtain the current Map object.
• Map.save(filename): Save a Map object to filename.
• Map.layerAppend(layer_width, layer_height, tile_index): Adds a new layer to the Map object.

Map scripts

• SetRenderScript(script): Set script to run after each time the map is drawn.
• SetUpdateScript(script): Set script to run after each map engine update.

• CallMapScript(map_event): Call map script associated with the current map.
• CallDefaultMapScript(map_event): Call map script set by SetDefaultMapScript().
• SetDefaultMapScript(map_event, script): Set map engine to run script when map_event occurs for any map.
  • Map event constants:

    SCRIPT_ON_ENTER_MAP

    SCRIPT_ON_LEAVE_MAP

    SCRIPT_ON_LEAVE_MAP_NORTH

    SCRIPT_ON_LEAVE_MAP_EAST

    SCRIPT_ON_LEAVE_MAP_SOUTH

    SCRIPT_ON_LEAVE_MAP_WEST

• SetDelayScript(frames, script): Run script after frames delay.

Map Elements

Zones

• AreZonesAt(x, y, layer): Check if there are any zones at (x, y) on layer.
• ExecuteZones(x, y, layer): Run all scripts for zones that (x, y) on layer is in.
• GetNumZones(): Get the number of zones on the current map.

For each zone

• GetCurrentZone(): Get the current zone index in a zone script.
• ExecuteZoneScript(zone): Execute the script of zone.

Zone position

• GetZoneX(zone): Get the X coordinate of zone on the map.
• GetZoneY(zone): Get the Y coordinate of zone on the map.
• GetZoneWidth(zone): Get the pixel width of zone.
• GetZoneHeight(zone): Get the pixel height of zone.

• GetZoneLayer(zone): Get the map layer index of zone.
• SetZoneLayer(zone, layer): Sets the map layer of zone to layer.

Triggers

• IsTriggerAt(x, y, layer): Check if there is a trigger at pixel coords (x, y) on layer.
• ExecuteTrigger(x, y, layer): Activate the trigger at (x, y) on layer if one exists.

Layers

• GetNumLayers(): Get number of layers in the current map.

• GetLayerName(layer): Get the name of layer.

• GetLayerWidth(layer): Get width of layer in tiles.
• GetLayerHeight(layer): Get height of layer in tiles.
• SetLayerWidth(layer, width): Set width of layer in tiles.
• SetLayerHeight(layer, height): Set height of layer in tiles.
• GetLayerAngle(layer): Get layer angle in radians.
• SetLayerAngle(layer, angle): Set layer rotation to angle radians.

• GetLayerMask(layer): Get Color mask of layer.
• SetLayerMask(layer, color_mask): Mask the layer with color_mask.

• IsLayerReflective(layer): Find if layer shows person entity reflections.
• SetLayerReflective(layer, reflect): Set reflectivity of layer.
• IsLayerVisible(layer): Find if layer is visible.
• SetLayerVisible(layer, visible): Set visibility of layer.

• SetLayerScaleFactorX(layer, factor): Set width scaling of layer to factor.
• SetLayerScaleFactorY(layer, factor): Set height scaling of layer to factor.

• SetLayerRenderer(layer, script): Run script after layer has been rendered.

Tiles

• GetNumTiles(): Get the number of tiles in the current map tileset.
• GetTileWidth(): Get the image width of tiles in the current map tileset.
• GetTileHeight(): Get the image height of tiles in the current map tileset.

• GetTile(tile_x, tile_y, layer): Get the tileset index of the tile at the given map position.
• SetTile(tile_x, tile_y, layer, tile): Plot a tile at the given map location.
• ReplaceTilesOnLayer(layer, old_tile, new_tile): Substitute all old_tile with new_tile on layer.

• GetTileName(tile): Get the name of tile.
• GetTileImage(tile): Get the Image of tile in the current map tileset.
• SetTileImage(tile, image): Change the Image of tile.
• SetTileSurface(tile, surface): Change the Surface of tile.

Tile animations

• GetNextAnimatedTile(tile): Get next tile index of animation from tile.
• SetNextAnimatedTile(tile, next): Set next tile in a tile animation sequence.

• GetTileDelay(tile): Get frame delay of animated tile.
• SetTileDelay(tile, delay): Set a frame delay for this tile animation frame.

Input

Player input

• GetInputPerson(): Get the name of the person who holds player input.
• IsInputAttached(): Check if input is attached to a person or not.
• AttachInput(person): Give input control of person to the player.
• DetachInput(): Remove input control given by AttachInput() or AttachPlayerInput().
• AttachPlayerInput(person, player): Give input control of person to player.
• DetachPlayerInput(person): Remove input control from person given to a player.

Binding scripts to input devices

Note: Binding a key or joystick button overrides whatever input has already been associated with it via AttachInput or AttachPlayerInput!

• BindKey(key, on_key_down, on_key_up): Bind scripts to key events.
• UnbindKey(key): Remove script binding from the given key.

• BindJoystickButton(joystick, button, on_button_down, on_button_up): Bind scripts to joystick button events.
• UnbindJoystickButton(joystick, button): Unbind joystick buttons from scripts.