Example of spawning off-screen chunks

[ndarilek]

I'm prototyping a concept where the overmap is much larger than the visible map, and is made up of chunk types. Some distance from the map edge, I want to generate adjacent chunks off-screen, add them to the map, and potentially spawn in enemies/items/etc. I'd like to spawn chunks a bit away from the character, to allow for things like enemy troops to spawn a chunk or two away and advance on the player's position if they are detected. So it wouldn't be just-in-time, but maybe a screen or two of tiles.

Is there an example of this? I'm not thinking it has to be complex--just take the random world example and spawn in adjacent off-screen chunks.

In the meantime, I'm curious about how this currently works. Does autospawn just handle creating the chunks for me from a group of tiles, or does it detect when the camera is about to move off-screen and create a new chunk? I'm not sure whether the current chunk events are meant to tell me that I should run my map generators and create/add a chunk myself, or if it's up to me to detect when a new chunk is needed and do that myself.

Thanks.

[joshuajbouw]

There is a sort of example of this with the redo of random_dungeon. I also just opened up the API on tilemap so that you can access to .events() which will allow you to see when chunks are created / despawned, allowing for stuff to be spawned in upon chunk creation if it needs to be. Otherwise, if the chunk already exists, then it will already have the data from before.