Free Pixel Movement System

A brand new Free Pixel Movement system has been developed from the ground up. It supports both keyboard movement (WASD / arrow keys) and touch or mouse-based input.

The system is entirely collision-based. The player, events, and map all have their own colliders. Collision maps are automatically generated using impassable tiles as a base.

📸 Auto generated Event colliders (green circles). You can edit collider size for each event.

📸 Auto generated colliders for map (yellow squares), based on impassable tiles

🎮 Movement Types

1. Keyboard Movement (WASD / Arrow Keys)

Movement is handled by analyzing collisions in real-time. The system checks whether the path is blocked before allowing movement in any direction.

2. Click or Touch Movement

A grid is generated, and the shortest path to the target location is calculated using pathfinding algorithms.

⚙️ Features

Adjustable Grid Size:
You can choose a grid size of 16, 24, or 48 pixels.
Larger grid sizes result in faster pathfinding calculations.
However, thanks to strong optimizations, even the 16px grid performs well on medium-sized maps.

📸 16 x 16 grid:

📸 24 x 24 grid:

📸 48 x 48 grid:

Floating Point Coordinates:
The system uses floating-point coordinates for player movement, unlike the standard integer-based tile system.
This allows for smooth, pixel-perfect motion.
New Interaction System:
Since standard tile-based event interactions don’t work well with pixel movement, a new interaction system was developed.
Events now have custom interaction zones, also based on collision.

📸 Event interactions zones (generated automatically, can be adjusted per certain event)

🚧 Collision System

Currently, impassable areas are generated automatically using the map’s impassable tiles. While this works, it can be a bit rough.

In the near future, the upcoming Map Enhancer plugin update will allow you to:

Draw your own custom collisions on the map.
Design collision zones of any shape or size.
Create separate collision layers for projectiles.

Next time, I’ll talk about an update regarding skills and Projectiles.