Tilemap not getting the right tile with world_to_map()

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Tilemap not getting the right tile with world_to_map()

ToastersUnited

I have a simple world map that use a tilemap. I have a function that loops through these tiles and finds tiles belonging to different countries, then edits a dictionary with a key for each country containing an array with their tilemap index and another array for the Vector2 positions. I want to be able to find out what country a user clicks when they click on a tile. I have two variations of the code for this, the way I think is more effecient:

func _input(event):
	if event is InputEventMouseButton:
		var tile = $TileMap.world_to_map(event.position)
		var cell = $TileMap.get_cellv(tile)
		print(tile)
		print(cell)
		var country = ""
		for c in countries:
			if countries[c][0] == cell:
				country = c
				break
			else: 
				continue
		print(country + " was clicked!")

Then the way I decided to try after that didn't work:

func _input(event):
	if event is InputEventMouseButton:
		var tile = $TileMap.world_to_map(event.position)
		print(tile)
		var country = "Error"
		for c in countries:
			for vec in countries[c][1]:
				if tile == vec:
					country = c
					break
				else:
					continue
		print(country + " was clicked!")

My country list if it is of any use:

var countries = {
"iceland":[0, []],
"norway" : [1, []],
"sweden" : [2, []],
"finland" : [3, []],
"russia" : [4, []],
"kazakhstan" : [5, []],
"estonia" : [6, []],
"latvia" : [7, []],
"lithuania" : [8, []],
"poland" : [9, []],
"belarus" : [10, []],
"ukraine" : [11, []],
"moldova" : [12, []],
"czechia" : [13, []],
"slovakia" : [14, []],
"hungary" : [15, []],
"austria" : [16, []],
"liech" : [17, []],
"swiss" : [18, []],
"monaco" : [19, []],
"france" : [20, []],
"italy" : [21, []],
"slovenia" : [22, []],
"sanmarino" : [23, []],
"malta" : [24, []],
"spain" : [25, []],
"portugal" : [26, []],
"andorra" : [27, []],
"nether" : [28, []],
"lux" : [29, []],
"belgium" : [30, []],
"germany" : [31, []],
"denmark" : [32, []],
"nonplay" : [33, []],
"romania" : [34, []],
"bulgaria" : [35, []],
"serbia" : [36, []],
"croatia" : [37, []],
"bah" : [38, []],
"mont" : [39, []],
"albania" : [40, []],
"greece" : [41, []],
"cyprus" : [42, []],
"turkey" : [43, []],
"syria" : [44, []],
"lebanon" : [45, []],
"iraq" : [46, []],
"georgia" : [47, []],
"armenia" : [48, []],
"azerbaijan" : [49, []],
"algeria" : [50, []],
"tunisia" : [51, []],
"plain" : [52, []],
"uk" : [53, []],
"ireland" : [54, []],
"macedonia" : [55, []],
"kosovo" : [56, []],
}

for some reason it only detects it when I click on the left and it recognizes it as uk. Here's my map if you need it. Past maybe wales it starts saying uk. Everything before that isn't detected.

This is getting too long so i'm going to end it here.

ToastersUnited

Hmm I can't edit posts here... Anyway, I just found out the second method doesn't detect anything.

duane

Have you tried using global_position instead of position?

ToastersUnited

@duane said: Have you tried using global_position instead of position?

This didn't work, but it got me on the right track. I ended up using

var tile = $TileMap.world_to_map($TileMap.get_local_mouse_position())

which worked perfectly. Thanks!

Megalomaniak

@ToastersUnited said: Hmm I can't edit posts here... Anyway, I just found out the second method doesn't detect anything.

You can, on the replies there's a little gear icon to the right side of a post header which should open a drop down menu, and for topic opening posts it's to the right of the topic title(if you are the author of the topic).