Complete roguelike tutorial using C++ and libtcod - part 4: field of view

Complete roguelike tutorial using C++ and libtcod -originally written by Jice Text in this tutorial was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) on 2015-09-21.

part 1: setting up part 2: map and actors part 3: dungeon building part 4: field of view part 5: preparing for combat part 6: going berserk! part 7: the GUI part 8: items and inventory part 9: spells and ranged combat part 10.1: persistence part 10.2: game menu part 11: dungeon levels and character progression extra 1: about editors and IDE extra 2: debugging extra 3: scent tracking extra 4: makefiles extra 5: more generic items

In this fourth part, we're computing the player field of view to light only the visible part of the dungeon. We also only display the part of the dungeon that the player has explored. We're going to use the libtcod TCODMap object to compute the field of view.

libtcod functions used in this article

TCODMap::TCODMap

TCODMap::isWalkable

TCODMap::isInFov

TCODMap::computeFov

TCODMap::setProperties