KoBeWi
Multiple maps
I was wondering if multiple maps are possible. I have tried to figure it out myself, but with no luck. Many metroidvanias have this feature. SOTN has the inverted castle. Others have a prelude area that you never return to.
My use case would be each map is a larger area, but represent moving in 3 dimensions. So entering a door behind the player could enter a new area and the door would appear to their left almost like the camera had gone through a 90 degree rotation. I hope that makes sense.
I know layers and portals exist, and could probably work for this, but would be hard to manage I think..
The layers are exactly for that, what makes them hard to manage? You can even give them names.
Actually, you are quite correct. I was tired while looking at it and my brain wasn't at 100%.. One thing that would help is the layer list being a dropdown though. clicking through many layers to find the one you want is, not hard, but inconvenient. A minor thing though
You can already click layer name for a dropdown (for named layers at least).
This is already implemented, so closing.
Aside from layers, there is also load_map_data() method that allows dynamically replacing map data.