Enemy Tilemap

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Bilal

Hello, I have a game designed for android, with multiple levels each having about 20-40 enemy nodes wich are a kinematicbody2d with an Area2D and a CollisionShape2D as a child and a Sprite and CollisionShape2D. I thought that perhaps it's more efficient/performant to convert the enemy into a Tilemap and then use one tilemap in each level. I converted the enemy node to a tilemap, but it's not moving and not even detecting collision.
My question: Are tilemaps only meant to display sprites with collision shapes ? Or can they behave like any node. Are they even nessecary in my situation ? Note that I'm a begginer.

cybereality

No, tilemaps are meant for the level. Like the floor, walls, things you can jump on. For players or enemies you would use Spites (or AnimatedSprites).

If you want to optimize it, then you can use a single Scene for all the enemies (or at least each enemy "class") then simply change the Texture/Image with GDScript to change the graphic.