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    totebototebo Member
    edited October 2017 in General questions
    Hey,

    I need a level editor that can place objects in arbitrary positions and export to JSON or similar. I keep coming back to Tiled, though, which has support for this. But it feels like it's the wrong tool, since you also have to have a tileset, which I don't need.

    Does anyone know of a level/map editor that allows free placement of objects?

    Cheers,

    Niclas
    My Gideros games: www.totebo.com
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    • totebototebo Member
      Alternatively, has this code for Tiled support in Gideros been updated to support Object Layers and arbitrary positioning?

      http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/699/using-tiled/p1
      My Gideros games: www.totebo.com
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    • piepie Member
      edited October 2017
      I don't know if that code has already been updated, "my" version is not because I didn't need it yet.
      However reading lua exported tiled maps is not too hard: you could ignore tilelayers and parse only the objectgroups.
      I made a dummy map with an empty tileset and 3 icons randomly placed in a object layer:
      this is the relevant part of the lua file.
       
  layers = {
    {
      type = "tilelayer",
      name = "layertile 1",
      x = 0,
      y = 0,
      width = 20,
      height = 20,
      visible = true,
      opacity = 1,
      offsetx = 0,
      offsety = 0,
      properties = {},
      encoding = "lua",
      data = {
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
      }
    },
    {
      type = "objectgroup",
      name = "actors",
      visible = true,
      opacity = 1,
      offsetx = 0,
      offsety = 0,
      draworder = "topdown",
      properties = {},
      objects = {
        {
          id = 1,
          name = "",
          type = "",
          shape = "rectangle",
          x = 232,
          y = 144,
          width = 32,
          height = 32,
          rotation = 0,
          gid = 1,
          visible = true,
          properties = {}
        },
        {
          id = 2,
          name = "",
          type = "",
          shape = "rectangle",
          x = 184,
          y = 184,
          width = 32,
          height = 32,
          rotation = 0,
          gid = 1,
          visible = true,
          properties = {}
        },
        {
          id = 3,
          name = "",
          type = "",
          shape = "rectangle",
          x = 400,
          y = 192,
          width = 32,
          height = 32,
          rotation = 0,
          gid = 2,
          visible = true,
          properties = {}
        }
      }
    }
  }
      as you can see for each element in layers there is a type to use as filter, and each element in type "objectgroup".objects have its properties ready to be used.

      take a look at tiledmap.lua in this archive, I am sure that with some if then and cut&paste you'll get what you need, and maybe it's the time that gideros gets a full featured support of Tiled maps
      http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/6948/tilemap-object-and-tiled-tile-flip/p1
      ;)
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    • SinisterSoftSinisterSoft Maintainer
      It's easier to use a utility like this and have a routine that figures things out OR build a secret editor into the game.
      Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
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    • totebototebo Member
      Thanks guys. Yeah, I also think Tiled is the best way to go. Was hoping someone had done this before, because I am very very lazy. Now I need to do some actual work!
      My Gideros games: www.totebo.com
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Actually I did it for 'Arthur', but I am afraid it isn't generic enough to be sharable...
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    • antixantix Member
      Tiled is the best way to go. As others have said, just ignore tile layers and you will be fine.

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    • totebototebo Member
      @hgy, I suppose that's the issue. The use of those type of objects can be anything. I'm going to load specific RUBE JSON files for each object. Which is probably a tad unusual. :)

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