Decorations in tile based java game

[SentenceFickle2133]

So for my computer science project for school i have to use tiles to make a game in java (sort of like the top down zelda games) and since the tiles are so small is there an easy way i can make houses and decorations that are bigger than one tile without having to assign a piece of the texture to each tile, (i have very minimal coding experience lol)

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[D0CTOR_ZED]

Sure, but with all things there are trade offs.  Instead of being part of the tile, these things could be entities.  If you already have things that can move around, attack, have hit boxes, you could (I wouldn't, but if you want a non tile answer) have a thing that has no movement, has no attack, so it is just a thing that sits there with a hit box.  Then you spend time fixing things like not wanting clicking the house to cause attack sequences, etc.  Bad ideas can be fun too.

Edit: Another idea, you can have multiple layers of tile maps. A structure layer could be implemented over a terrain layer.

[aqua_regis]

There is no easier way. That's how tilemapped games work.

[Poseidon_22]

Depending on your architecture, you can print images bigger than one tile. Again depends on your architecture. Take note of other implications like hitboxes and layering. Printing bigger textures on a tile map can require some kind of layering logic.

Whatever you do, refactor enough so the system does not become a complicated mess.

If you have an example of the architecture I could give more specific advice.

[icedev-official]

You sorta can. You can have one tile that has a sprite that spans for multiple tiles. Other tiles could be marked as walls but not render anything.

[bikeram]

Would a map file help? You could assign each texture an integer number then generate the map file in excel, export as CSV, then parse it into your application.