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I've an image of 416x16 which contains 16x16 letters of a font.

IMAGE font "Images/font.png" NONE

I want to load a series of 16x16 sections of this IMAGE onto plan A? What functions would I use?

TMK, the easiest thing to do would be to just resize your letters to single 8x8 px tiles (like SGDK's normal default font), and upload to VRAM the image's tiles to overwrite the default SGDK font. Take a look at VRAM in the debuggers of Gens KMod/your emulator to get the base VRAM addr offset to use for the upload addr.

After overwriting the font, any of the string printing functions would use the new font's tiles. (VDP_drawText, VDP_drawTextBG, etc). To restore the old font, just do the same upload thing but using an image with the default SGDK font.

Thanks for the response I know this trick already! But wanting a bigger font set too, so need to work this out

If you want to use bigger font then you have to rewrite your own drawText(..) methods to take care of the 2x2 tiles letters, a big deal honestly !

I know stef I'm not really explaining myself properly here! All I want to do is take a number of tiles from an image and load them to a plan

So for example say image1 has 8 tiles. I'd like to load tiles 1 and 8 to the screen next to each other

1 2 3
6 7 8

Would it be easier to just have a number of individual images of 16x16?

IMAGE letterA
IMAGE letterB

Do you had a look on the VDP_setMapEx(..) method ? I think that's what you need

I'll take a look at it Thanks Stef!

Stef wrote:Do you had a look on the VDP_setMapEx(..) method ? I think that's what you need

I can't get this to work! I declare the image as a map in my resources and it says "map" not yet supported?

Declare it as an IMAGE, internally the image contains a map : image->map

Sorry I'm still struggling could you write me an example?

okay worked it out

Well done