Tile by Tile movement?

[hooligan2001]

At the monent my tile based game has pixel by pixel movment. Which means my character moves at 3 pixels per frame. But what i want to know how to do is. Tile by tile movement. Like in Final Fantasy 6 where you press the direction you want to move in and the character moves at 3 pixels per frame tile it reaches the the center of the tile in the direction pressed.

Any help would be most appretiated.

Thanks in Advance

[Mad-Sci]

well that is not difficult for example if you tiles are 18x18 then you can move the sprite 2 times with step of 9 (9+9=18) or 9 times with step of 2 or 3 times with step of 6, or 6 times with step of 3 you can do this as follows:

in the hero movie clip:
1. get the keypress and direction of move with onClipEvent (enterFrame). It is important to get this direction only if the the _currantframe==1 for example:

onClipEvent (enterFrame){
if (this._currantframe==1){

if (Key.isDown (Key.RIGHT)){dir="right";}

}}

2. frame 1: stop()
3. frame2:

count+=step;
if ( dir == "left"){this._x-=step;} else
if ( dir == "right"){this._x+=step;} else
if ( dir == "up"){this._y-=step;} else
if ( dir == "down"){this._y+=step;}

4. frame 3:

if ( count >=18){
count=0;
this.gotoAndStop(1);}
else{
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

hope that helps. the variable step could be 2,6,3,9

ms

[hooligan2001]

Thanks Mad-Sci looks like it will solve my prob.

ThankS again