#Sizing/Dimension Best Practices

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lunar pebble
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I'm still wrapping my head around game dev and some of the basics elude me...I know the canvas is set to a 32x32 grid, but the sprite/tile sheet I have is coming out to 70x70 per tile. I also know it's a challenge to scale down with visual quality. However in the long run will I create problems for myself if I increase the grid to 70x70 or should I endeavor to bust the sprites down to 32x or 64x?

noble osprey
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Nowadays there's not any real benefit to having sprite/tile sizes be powers of 2

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People still do it because of old convention, but there's nothing wrong with 70x70 tiles

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I have 80x80 tiles myself

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you can change the grid size in the room editor too, to whatever you want

lunar pebble
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🙏🏾 prefect....Thank you! A lot of this feels so open ended because you can do what you want, but I'm always concerned about painting myself into a corner and having to start over or something silly. haha. Appreciate the info!

noble osprey
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For a little more info, GM actually takes all of your sprites and puts them into texture pages on compile

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and those texture pages are power of 2 sizes, so it essentially gives you that power of 2 optimization no matter what sprite sizes you use

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so you don't gotta worry about it