Hi, as mentioned earlier, OpenLayers.Layer.Markers should work for you better (see http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/markers.html for example).
If you decide to try custom mapserver layer, maybe you could have a look at GeoServer [1] as well. It's configuration is GUI-based (in contradistinction to MapServer [2]). And to make it even more complicated, maybe storing the data into PostGIS[3] database could simplify (at the end) some things as well. Jachym [1] http://geoserver.org [2] http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu [3] http://postgis.org 2009/1/8 Abuki <ab...@argo.in>: > > Hello, > I´m not expert on OpenLayers and also English (I´m from Czech). > I´m just trying to make my own browser-based game and I want to use > OpenLayers for world map. > Now the problem: > I want to put on the base layer some object (coordinates from mysql) > represented by png images (eg house) and I do it like this: make polygons > (circles), make features and make featureLayer (I dont want use markers, > because I would like have the clickable area not always square). Then add > control onmouseclick, so i have clickable object - thats ok. But I dont know > how to put there a lot of images, the only way I understand is to make image > layer for every single PNG image, its ok BUT: When I put in mysql 1000 > objects a make this for all of them, it is slow (it takes about 10sec > loading and browsing is not smooth), and i´m afraid that this is simple so > what if would come something complicated... > I dont uderstand mapservers and i want to find the way to not use them, > because i will run the game on hosted site, so I cant install it there. Also > when I try only vector or images layer alone it was slow. > So could anyone help me to get it work faster? And is it possible without > mapserver? > Thanks > Abuki > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Game-development-problem---speed-with-lot-of-objects-tp2129189p2129189.html > Sent from the OpenLayers Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
