Rendering Tilemaps on Screen instead of World

[JumpLink]

Hi @eonarheim and community,

I have a question regarding rendering tilemaps. Specifically, is it possible to render them directly on the screen coordinate plane? I'm trying to use tiles to draw the background of a menu and have been using the ex.TileMap class for this. I've managed to display it on the Screen instead of the World, which is what I wanted. However, depending on the player's world position, some tiles get hidden (so the world coordinates are probably still used here to determine whether a tile is outside the visible area).

This is how I am currently setting the coordinate plane for the tilemap:

    // Set the tilemap coordinate plane to the screen
    let trans = tilemap.get(TransformComponent);
    if (trans) {
      trans.coordPlane = CoordPlane.Screen;
    }

Is the TileMap class possibly not suitable for this use case? Should I consider writing a custom ScreenTileMap class, see if I can fix it in Excalibur or is there a straightforward way to prevent individual tiles from being hidden?

Any advice or insights on this would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

[JumpLink]

I have now created an issue for that: #2763

[eonarheim]

@JumpLink this is a good question, I think this was a miss in our design. There is some custom offscreen handling and we didn't consider the screen case.

I agree that you should be able to use a TileMap in either coordinate space