diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TileLayer.java b/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TileLayer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index ec619ba68..000000000
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TileLayer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-//
-// $Id: TileLayer.java,v 1.1 2001/11/18 04:09:21 mdb Exp $
-
-package com.threerings.media.tile;
-
-/**
- * The tile layer class is a convenience class provided to simplify the
- * management of a two-dimensional array of tiles. It takes care of
- * dereferencing the tile array efficiently with methods that the Java
- * compiler should inline, and prevents the caller from having to do the
- * indexing multiplication by hand every time.
- */
-public final class TileLayer
-{
-    /**
-     * Constructs a tile layer instance with the supplied tiles, width and
-     * height. The tiles should exist in row-major format (the first row
-     * of tiles followed by the second and so on).
-     *
-     * @exception IllegalArgumentException thrown if the size of the tiles
-     * array does not match the specified width and height.
-     */
-    public TileLayer (Tile[] tiles, int width, int height)
-    {
-        // sanity check
-        if (tiles.length != width*height) {
-            String errmsg = "tiles.length != width*height";
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException(errmsg);
-        }
-
-        _tiles = tiles;
-        _width = width;
-        _height = height;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the width of the layer in tiles.
-     */
-    public int getWidth ()
-    {
-        return _width;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the height of the layer in tiles.
-     */
-    public int getHeight ()
-    {
-        return _height;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Fetches the tile at the specified row and column. Bounds checking
-     * is not done. Note that the parameters are column first, followed by
-     * row (x, y order rather than row, column order).
-     */
-    public Tile getTile (int column, int row)
-    {
-        return _tiles[row*_width+column];
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Sets the tile at the specified row and column. Bounds checking is
-     * not done. Note that the parameters are column first, followed by
-     * row (x, y order rather than row, column order).
-     */
-    public void setTile (int column, int row, Tile tile)
-    {
-        _tiles[row*_width+column] = tile;
-    }
-
-    /** Our tiles array. */
-    private Tile[] _tiles;
-
-    /** The number of tiles in a row. */
-    private int _width;
-
-    /** The number of rows. */
-    private int _height;
-}
diff --git a/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TrimmedObjectTileSet.java b/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TrimmedObjectTileSet.java
index 00f8986af..f9943d10f 100644
--- a/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TrimmedObjectTileSet.java
+++ b/src/java/com/threerings/media/tile/TrimmedObjectTileSet.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //
-// $Id: TrimmedObjectTileSet.java,v 1.7 2003/02/06 06:23:05 mdb Exp $
+// $Id: TrimmedObjectTileSet.java,v 1.8 2003/02/12 05:33:47 mdb Exp $
 
 package com.threerings.media.tile;
 
@@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ public class TrimmedObjectTileSet extends TileSet
 
     /**
      * Returns the orientation of the spot associated with the specified
-     * tile index.
+     * tile index, or <code>-1</code> if the object has no associated
+     * spot.
      */
     public int getSpotOrient (int tileIdx)
     {
-        return (_bits == null) ? 0 : _bits[tileIdx].sorient;
+        return (_bits == null) ? -1 : _bits[tileIdx].sorient;
     }
 
     // documentation inherited
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ public class TrimmedObjectTileSet extends TileSet
         if (_bits != null) {
             Bits bits = _bits[tileIndex];
             tile.setPriority(bits.priority);
-            if (bits.xspot != 0 || bits.yspot != 0 || bits.sorient != 0) {
+            if (bits.sorient != -1) {
                 tile.setSpot(bits.xspot, bits.yspot, bits.sorient);
             }
         }
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ public class TrimmedObjectTileSet extends TileSet
         public short yspot;
 
         /** The orientation of the "spot" associated with this object. */
-        public byte sorient;
+        public byte sorient = -1;
 
         /** Generates a string representation of this instance. */
         public String toString ()