Using Tiled

mykyl66

I have looked and looked at the sewer code and desert code (No comments in that code still. When will we see commented code in the samples?) and cannot figure out what is happening.

How do you use a file from TilEd simply. For example lets say you did a line of tiles in TilEd that will be a platform game how do I then use that TileEd file to draw that platform to screen.

Cheers

Mike

mykyl66

Never mind. Got it I think.

Mike

atilim

Oh.. I was just preparing an example. If you stuck, please ask again.

mykyl66

Probably would be good to post it anyway for others as its not very clear and took quite a bit of figuring out.

Cheers

Mike

pixelknights

I'm just looking at Tiled as an option since I can't use Levelhelper with Gideros (I'm moving over from Corona), so a tutorial on tiled & gideros would be gratefully appreciated.

Bigmacbook

The code to display a tiled map is hurting my head. could someone break it down?

atilim

Hi all,

Tile map file format is a little bit complicated. Because it can contain multiple tilesets and multiple layers. But if there is only 1 tileset and 1 layer, loading function can be simplified. Here is an explanation of TMX file format: https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki/TMX-Map-Format The exported lua file has the same structure.

I've separated the tile map loading functionality into classes. The attached zip file contains two classes: TileMapSingle and TileMapMultiple. TileMapSingle can be used when there is only 1 tileset and 1 layer. Otherwise you should use TileMapMultiple.

Hope this helps.

evs

I've added this at line 36 of tilemapsingle.lua to allow translucency in a single layer (in case you have a background visible already, see below).

tilemap:setAlpha(layer.opacity)

Note: tilemapmultiple.lua already does this to all layers in the group.


Cheers

evs

atilim

@evs thanks

Garyk1968

I was wondering if there are any examples on detecting walls that are in a tilemap (as a separate layer)

Cheers

Gary

evs

Here's a little demo featuring a Tiled tile map with a tile layer for the graphics and an object layer for building physics collision zones and storing properties.

Grab the ball and chuck it about, see the various collisions and scores printed out, set the debug flag in the code to see debug drawing and object info.

Thanks go to @atilim for the initial tile stuff and Gideros collision example
and to @ar2rsawseen for the main physics stuff and appcodingeasy.

All files including a gproj and the Tiled tmx are included.


cheers

evs

gorkem

@evs do you mind adding this post to the Code snippets section also, so I can link it from Forum FAQ?

evs

@gorkem no problem - done!


cheers

evs

Garyk1968

evs thanks for your efforts it *is* appreciated!

gorkem

*More than* appreciated ;-)

alexzheng

Hi all,

Tile map file format is a little bit complicated. Because it can contain multiple tilesets and multiple layers. But if there is only 1 tileset and 1 layer, loading function can be simplified. Here is an explanation of TMX file format: https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki/TMX-Map-Format The exported lua file has the same structure.

I've separated the tile map loading functionality into classes. The attached zip file contains two classes: TileMapSingle and TileMapMultiple. TileMapSingle can be used when there is only 1 tileset and 1 layer. Otherwise you should use TileMapMultiple.

Hope this helps.

very handy classes.
I'm a little confused by the these two lines.
It's OK since the margin is much smaller than tilewidth in most tileset.

tileset.sizex = math.floor((tileset.imagewidth - tileset.margin + tileset.spacing) / (tileset.tilewidth + tileset.spacing)) tileset.sizey = math.floor((tileset.imageheight - tileset.margin + tileset.spacing) / (tileset.tileheight + tileset.spacing))

why not as following

tileset.sizex = math.floor((tileset.imagewidth - 2 * tileset.margin + tileset.spacing) / (tileset.tilewidth + tileset.spacing)) tileset.sizey = math.floor((tileset.imageheight - 2 * tileset.margin + tileset.spacing) / (tileset.tileheight + tileset.spacing))

alexzheng

Sorry,I have never used tilemap in a real game,so I have many question when looking into the code.
And in this function
why we do not mask bit 32, 31 and 30 of gid when find out the tileset according to this document:
When you use the tile flipping feature added in Tiled Qt 0.7.0, the highest two bits of the gid store the flipped state. Bit 32 is used for storing whether the tile is horizontally flipped and bit 31 is used for the vertically flipped tiles. And since Tiled Qt 0.8.0, bit 30 means whether the tile is flipped (anti) diagonally, enabling tile rotation. These bits have to be read and cleared before you can find out which tileset a tile belongs to.

local function gid2tileset(map, gid) for i=1, #map.tilesets do local tileset = map.tilesets[i]   if tileset.firstgid <= gid and gid <= tileset.lastgid then return tileset end end end

alexzheng

and the "gids" is an array of unsigned 32-bit integers using little-endian byte ordering,will swap byte needed for big-endian Architecture?

stoddsie

Hi,

When I try to implement the TileMapMultiple I get the following error

tileMapMultiple.lua:32: 'for' limit must be a number

which is this line of code:

for y=1,layer.height do

Any ideas? My tilemap has two layers, and one tileset.

Thanks for your help

James

Scouser

It would appear that the layer.height is nil for the particular layer you're trying to process.

stoddsie

Thanks Scouser, I had a look at the map lua file, and compared it to another, and you were right, the layer in my new map didn't have a "height" or "width" attribute, and another map did. I'll give it a go and see if it works.

Cheers

James

Tom2012

How do we make shapes other than boxes? Eg a slope?

Thanks

Scouser

@Tom2012: Maybe you need something like this. I haven't used it but it appears to do what you want.

brigosx

I've tried the TiledAsWorldEditor V2 example but a required module named "bit" seems to be missing from the project. Is this a plugin of Gideros? I found a "bit.c" in "All Plugins" folder of Gideros. Should I compile it to DLL? I am a bit new in Gideros Mobile so please forgive my ignorance.

brigosx

OK I found out how it works. I needed to put the bitop.dll file in the \Plugins folder and to restart the player... Thanks anyway.

hgvyas123

@brigosx

i dont think we need bit plugin to run tilemap are you using any third party tool or i am missing something?

ar2rsawseen

@hgvyas123

I've tried the TiledAsWorldEditor V2 example but a required module named "bit" seems to be missing from the project. Is this a plugin of Gideros? I found a "bit.c" in "All Plugins" folder of Gideros. Should I compile it to DLL? I am a bit new in Gideros Mobile so please forgive my ignorance.

hgvyas123

:-w

brigosx

hgvyas123, no I've just downloaded the demo and ran it from within the Gideros SDK on the Windows player. There is a require "bit" inside the class body but I am not sure why mine installation demanded it (it has a condition there too).

MauMau

I am currently pondering wether to use Gideros TileMap or an own tile map solution for my project because Gideros' TileMap documentation is very poor and the examples leave lots of questions, too.

Are there any performance benefits from using Gideros' TileMap instead of a custom tile map solution?

And what is a "gid"?

local function gid2tileset(gid) for i=1, #map.tilesets do local tileset = map.tilesets[i] if tileset.firstgid <= gid and gid <= tileset.lastgid then return tileset end end end

ar2rsawseen

@MauMau
1) I would suggest using Gideros TileMap implementation because it will be much more optimized internally, then simply putting Bitmaps in your own solution

2) I have not used Tiled myself, but as I see from example, in Tiled, if you have multiple tile set images, then they would be indexed together, as if first tiles set contains 16 images, first one would be 1st, last one would be 16th, and the next tile set first tile would start with 17th index.
So gid is a global tile identifier across all provide tile sets, and this function is what finds the correct tile set for specified identifier.
Basically it is something specific to Tiled export.