Forums » Help » How do I make a a special tile behavior when a player moves on it.

I've tried some things but its not working.

My game is like a board game with an overhead view players move up to 3 tiles per turn. When the player moves over a water tile I want to stop his movement for that turn. When he moves over sand I want it to reduce the number of tiles he can move from 3 to 2. I also would like to play sound files when the player moves on a water tile. How do I implement special behaviors when a player moves on a specific tile. Nothing I've tried works well.

Could you make a new ' empty ' entity. One that renders in Weltmeister but not in-game. Then check for player collision with this new 'environment tile (entity)' and then check it's type.

// pseudo-code

    if ( player.isColliding( environmentEntity ) ) {

        switch ( environmentEntity.type ) {
             case 'sand': //do stuff
                 break;
              //...
        }
}

Basically do a trigger entity like dominic did in the tutorial video, but add the additional features you need.

Another way is to use the getTile() function of the corresponding Map object. It takes a pixel-position as parameters and gives the tile number.

@der_r yeah I finally was able to do it with getTile() there wasn't any examples of this in the documentation. Here is a snippet for anyone who wants to do the same thing.

switch(ig.game.backgroundMaps[0].getTile(this.pos.x,this.pos.y)){
										case 18:
											impedance_message="Your motion is slowed by the sand."
											movelimit=2;
										break;
										case 22:
											movelimit=1;
										break;
										}