[RGSS3] TILEMAP GUTS

Hi everyone,

Recently, I've been toying around with making the observable resolution of RPG Maker VX Ace smaller, so that the resolution matches that of an SNES game. I managed to decrease the window size, and set the tile grid (and all associated movements) to 16x16 pixels.

This seems to work great, but my problem is that this change does not extend to the tile graphics, which are still 32x32. The map's grid will be 16x16, but the graphical grid is twice as large. The character walks on a phantom map that is twice as small as what the player sees.

I realize that this 32x32 grid is kind-of hardcoded into RPG Maker VX Ace. Nevertheless, I would like to access the guts of the Tilemap class to try and halve the spacing of the graphics as the program draws each tile, as it initializes the map. Does anyone happen to have a reproduction of the Tilemap class? Or, can you point me in the right direction?

(I also realize I could just draw in 16x16 and scale it up to 32x32, but I'm actually trying to increase the performance by keeping things small. In my past experience with VX Ace, the engine tends to chug under large maps.)

Hey Marrend,

As I was scouring the help file for clues, I came under the impression that "map_data" represents the size of the map, but not the size of each tile.

I do think that the Tilemap class is built-in... So, normally, we can't edit it, because of how intimately that kind of stuff works with the editor side of RPG Maker. I think I saw the internal code of RPG Maker being played around with before, on deep-diving RPG Maker sites, like chaos-project and himeworks. I was wondering if anyone had seen anything like that before, on such sites.

It seems like it would be easy enough to do... after all, to decrease the size of the walking grid, all I did was do a search for every instance of "32", then look at the code. Usually, replacing that "32" with a "16" was a straight substitution.