(2D Only) Tiling screen

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JamesRobinson59281

Hi all. Here's my problem:

I have an array, tileArray(i, j). Each array element contains a 16 x 16 tile.

I have drawn them to the screen to map over the entire screen:

for i = 0 to 63
for j = 0 to 47
drawImage tileArray(i, j), 16 * i, 16 * j
next
next

The problem is, performing this many draw operations in a single program loop is WAY too cpu intensive. Does anyone have an idea of a faster method? It's important that the tiles can be updated on a frame-by-frame basism because some of the tiles are animated.

Thanks a lot.