character height

[bat]

how do u make a character more than 1 square high/wide?

[cbass]

You have to create another tileset that has the tilesize equal to the size you want your player sprite.  

(If your tiles are 32x32, make the new tileset 32x64 to make the player twice as tall.  do this in "tilesets")  Then draw you playersprite and change the tiles in his sprite template.  do this in "sprites and paths"

I would only recommend having the player at most two times as big as the tilesize in any dimension (wide or tall), although having him the same size as the tiles is ideal for reason i'll explain below.

There can be some problems that show up from having different sized tiles as player sprite, this is mainly due to how tile solidity is processed.  The entire player sprite (or any sprite) does not see solid tiles as solid, only the 4 corners of the sprite react to solidity.  So, if a large playersprie jumped at a thin platform, he could hit the platform head on, but still go through it because none of the corners of him touched the platform.  This problem is corrected if all platforms are 2 tiles high.  If your sprite is 3 tiles high, you platforms need to be that tall as well.

hope that helps

[bluemonkmn]

To elaborate, you don't necessarily have to make your whole platform as tall as the player, just the edges.  In the example below, "P" represents the player and "X" represents solid map tiles:

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   XXXXXXXX
P  X      X
P
XXXXXXXXXXXXX


Notice how only the left and right ends of the upper floor are two tiles high.  This prevents the player from straddling the floor as he jumps at it.  That is adequate to get around the problem.  The rest of the floor only needs to be 1 tile high.  Not sure if that's helpful, but I thought I'd point it out just in case.

[bat]

thanks! i feel sort of stupid not knowing much... [/code]

[bluemonkmn]

Don't worry -- learning a system like this takes a while, but when you get into it after a while, it's a powerful system with lots of options and reasonably flexibility that's still pretty easy to use for creating the right kinds of games.  I can't speak for myself very well because I wrote it and I don't know what's it's like to learn it from ground zero, but from what I hear, this is my general impression.  But you do have to be serious about learning it at first -- for most people it's not just a toy you can pick up and play with right away.