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I read through the last two pages or so, and I must say: I have forgotten how magical this thread (and writing in general) can be.

In my late-night sleeplessness which sets upon me once a month I began flipping through "The Return of The Shadow", which is basically about Tolkien's writing process for LOTR, and it inspired me so much that I created a world for myself. I am now determined write a story for that world, or at least a scene to breath life into that creation.

I wrote a poem earlier (actually started off as an English assignment I was loathing) and I think I'll post that when I awake from my thankful slumber.

How do you guys handle loading map data (presumably tile-based)?

as it is now, I have it stored in a textfile where as such:

0.0.0
0.1.0
0.0.0

etc. etc.

I take a string tokenizer with a . delimiter and seperate each value into it's position in a 2-d array, which determines the look of each tile.

I guess that's inefficient, but I'd like load/save information to readily accessible and modifiable, how are you guys doing it?

Do:

"Urist 2012"

for teh record, light assault = awesome sauceness

You should get that to work, liquid-physics has a special place in my video-game heart.

If not, you should make a procedural 11-15 century insult generator

"Doth thou even hoist, brother?"

So if this works out they way in which most references point (Event Horzion, bitches) we're going to need Lawrence Fishburne to fight random white people in space... AGAIN.

@Thobal: that's wicked.

anyways, So I got my tiled-map displayed properly, now I am having some trouble getting information about each tile to display properly:

Here's the map rendering/displaying class:
and here is the class which most tile and map information is stored:

I did some debugging, but it's proved to be inconclusive. I do not know what the problem is, but I'll try to explain my thoughts as clearly as possible:

The trouble begins at line 69, in the Render method, where the tiles are drawn and each tile's corresponding information-storage instantiated object (these stored in the tilesAct 2dimensional array, consisting of the mapWorld class i.e. the other posted class) is given information regarding type of tile and a description (which for now displays what SHOULD be a unique number) however, regardless of what tile is the map cursor is over the same information is displayed, the actual code for rendering that information starts a line 147. So, I am thinking that the information isn't being stored uniquely because I'm using static variables, but im not sure that makes any sense, and frankly im baffled (its possible a simple mistake) and any help would be appreciated.

If you need more information, or the classes are confusing/difficult-to-read/poorly-documented-&-poorly-explained please do not hesitate to ask, again all help appreciated, thanks.

EDIT: I will edit this with a picture in a second.

here it is:
as you can see the selected square's type is showing as mountains (when it is grasslands, all tiles do this), that ID is the same for all the tiles. Terrain Debug shows the type set for the tile in tilesAct[0][0] i.e. the bottom left

EDITEDIT: Im using LWJGL with slick2D, so sorry if you guys don't understand some of that.