Is spritesheet demo appropriate for tilemapping

[greycoder]

I have looked over the guide https://dreamcast.wiki/PVR_Spritesheets on how to do sprites. It was very helpful.

I am interested in doing 2D tile maps, basically rendering https://www.mapeditor.org/ maps. Is the best way to do this to just render a series of fixed-dimension sprites? Or is there a better way?

I looked over the KOS examples and didn't find exactly what I was looking for.

I also wondered what the most current way people are doing page flipping is.

[TapamN]

Using the sprite command for tile maps works fine. I worked on an unfinished port of Micropolis (open source SimCity Classic), and I used the sprite command to render the city as a 120x100 tile tilemap without issues.

When using KOS's PVR driver, the driver will handle flipping automatically.

[lerabot]

Sprites are quite fast for this. You should be able to render Tiled map with the DC.

Add me on Discord (bertholet) if you want to talk about it, I could be interested in a Tiled map reader for the DC.