Foundation.Tile

The most basic form of drawable object, Tiles are axis-aligned rectangle objects which are filled with a texture region. Tiles cannot be assigned colliders (though they can be checked for bonds-to-bounds overlaps with other drawable types). Tiles are not transformable, but their bounding rectangle can be freely modified for cheap movement, scaling etc. Tiles are ideal for non-interactive scenery, or for simple axis-aligned objects.

Tiles which are moved, scaled etc. retain no memory of their original geometry.

For a more complex drawable object, see the Sprite type.

Example

// Create a tile at 100, 200 which is 300 units wide by 400 units high
var tile = new Foundation.Tile(
  new Foundation.Rectangle(100, 200, 300, 400), 
  someTexture.getRegion('all')
);

...

// Add the tile to a layer (path from default game prefab)
someGame['layers']['default'].pushBack(tile);

...

// Move by direct bounds modification: 
tile.bounds.x += 10;

...

// Move tile to another layer
someGame['layers']['another'].pushBack(tile);

// Remove tile from its current layer
tile.layer.remove(tile);

Implementation Details

Reference paths

  • '/foundation/_digest.ts'
  • '/foundation/core/actors/_digest.ts'
  • '/foundation/core/actors/Tile.ts'

Extends

This type extends:

Equality check is deep. Clone is deep.

Implements

This type implements the following interfaces:

Constructors

(bounds: Rectangle, image: TextureRegion = null, alpha: number = 1)

  • Define tile position as a rectangle. Image and alpha values are optional.

Properties

alpha: number

  • The tile's drawing alpha value in the range 0 (fully transparent) to 1 (fully opaque).
  • When setting, value will be clamped to 0, 1.

bounds: Rectangle

  • Reference to the tile's bounding rectangle. This is a reference to the raw bounding rectangle, changes to component values will be preserved.

image: TextureRegion

  • Reference to the tile's fill object (a TextureRegion instance).
  • May be null.

Instance Methods

clearImage(): TextureRegion

  • Removes and nulls the tile's current image.
  • Returns the removed image.

getOriginalBounds(): Rectangle

  • Tiles are not transformable. As such, this method acts as a simple alias for the bounds property.

overlaps(other: {bounds: Rectangle}): boolean

  • Returns true if the tile's bounds overlap the passed rectangle.

handleOverlap(other: Tile|Sprite): void

  • Base implementation is empty, override to add behavior.
  • If using the CollisionUtility methods to check for overlapping items, this method will be called for each detected overlap.
  • Overlapping tile or sprite will be passed on call.
  • Overlaps are based on axis-aligned bounding box checks and are not the same as collisions (which occur on colliders). Tiles cannot have colliders, therefore are not collidable.