why are the tiles still 24bytes...

game/math.odin

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 package game
 
 Vec2i :: struct {
-    x: u32,
-    y:u32,
+    x: int,
+    y: int,
 }
 
 vec2i_to_vec2 :: proc(v2i:Vec2i) -> [2]f32 {
@@ -10,5 +10,43 @@ vec2i_to_vec2 :: proc(v2i:Vec2i) -> [2]f32 {
 }
 
 vec2_to_vec2i :: proc(v2:[2]f32) -> Vec2i {
-    return {u32(v2.x), u32(v2.y)}
+    return {int(v2.x), int(v2.y)}
+}
+
+serialize_vec2i :: proc(v:Vec2i) -> [8]byte {
+    data: [8]byte
+    
+    x := serialize_int(v.x)
+    y := serialize_int(v.y)
+
+    for i in 0..<4 {
+        data[i] = x[i]
+    }
+
+    for i in 0..<4 {
+        data[4 + i] = y[i]
+    }
+    
+    return data
+}
+
+deserialize_vec2i :: proc(data:[]byte) -> Vec2i {
+    x := deserialize_int(data[0:4])
+    y := deserialize_int(data[4:8])
+    return Vec2i{x,y}
+}
+
+serialize_int :: proc(v:int) -> [4]byte {
+    data : [4]byte 
+
+    data[0] = byte(v)
+    data[1] = byte(v >> 8)
+    data[2] = byte(v >> 16)
+    data[3] = byte(v >> 24)
+
+    return data
+}
+
+deserialize_int :: proc(data:[]byte) -> int {
+    return int(data[0]) | int(data[1]) << 8 | int(data[2]) << 16 | int(data[3]) << 24 
 }