Tiled Map Loader

[RootKernel]

I've made a simple extension that can easily load maps created with the open source software : "Tiled Map Editor" (http://www.mapeditor.org/)
Based on EDIF SDK.

Runtime : PC (only)

/!\ For the moment, this extension allows only maps uncompressed ! (no base64, or CSV) : Disable compressions of map in Tiled (Edit > Preferences > Save layers data as XML)

Features :

• Load maps properties
• Load tilesets (width, height, images, id ...)
• Load layers & tiles
• Load objects & objects properties

TiledMapLoaderb2.zip
Tiled Map Loader b2

[Looki]

Nice, I guess I shouldn't have deleted Tiled support from my Tile Map extension. I just really don't like the editor and format at all

[RootKernel]

Nice, I guess I shouldn't have deleted Tiled support from my Tile Map extension. I just really don't like the editor and format at all

Well yes, at first I was using EasyXML to load the tiled maps, and it wasn't fast and it requires some additional DLLs, so I wrote this one.

For tiled, i really like the editor : it's fast and well designed but the only problem I could blame is the object editor. (using colors instead of images is not really clever)

[Looki]

If you plan to support zlib compressed files, this is a great and easy to use implementation of it: http://code.google.com/p/miniz/ I also use it in my tile map extension.

[RootKernel]

I don't know if you remember the tiled map format, but unfortunatly the compressed data is not the whole file, but the data in layer nodes (it gzipped and encoded in base64)

Ex:

<layer name="Background" width="100" height="30">
<data encoding="base64" compression="zlib">
eJztmH9OwkAQhWcTULgIXkQscg7xR+IlmmhSD0ICFxG4h4Dewt fYTRakTauLnZH3JS/fPw2BebtD0kxEXpCMVuEZMqfVeIms6G8eIdct+B55oNU4Ex17k +b/h0YvRce+pr/8jnzQatxzIn1H0/Qh/wfGNRODNuc8RC6NOcVvHyAXNZ0/f4acGzj3E+TGmPP5XiFJ4bIkRRc+FvbQM/JkzH6+d8htRcIurNyPN2RtyFPZnfMrsihx6uzdjw4+p+vs2N8L P+MNsj3gtJjPfidtz1srfn80dTjbnEe3myo0nH/t/LaPJmjeU1po0sdPe/Cwj/pU9RB2wT7+hmPeCw/70MUp9xHrTMeEfbT9LU6b8B1r2EfMd6+EEEIIIRr4BCfMoEE=
</data>
</layer>

So I think that decodes base64 string and uncompresses is not efficient.

[Looki]

Ah, I remember it has both gzip and zlib. I only implemented zlib! I do remember base64, but there are a million small libraries to decode that. I just wanted to recommend miniz to you, it's easily the best zlib implementation I've ever seen

[RootKernel]

Ah, I remember it has both gzip and zlib. I only implemented zlib! I do remember base64, but there are a million small libraries to decode that. I just wanted to recommend miniz to you, it's easily the best zlib implementation I've ever seen

Thank you! I'll see what I can do.

[oasuke]

This is fantastic RootKernal! I don't think I even need my level editor anymore with this combo. I just have one question about this comment;

(using colors instead of images is not really clever)

The editor has an option to insert a tile as an object, which would allow you to have images. However..I'm getting some weird positioning problems when doing so.

Edit: Nevermind. This can be fixed by offsetting the position by whichever size the inserted tile is.

[RootKernel]

This is fantastic RootKernal! I don't think I even need my level editor anymore with this combo. I just have one question about this comment;



The editor has an option to insert a tile as an object, which would allow you to have images. However..I'm getting some weird positioning problems when doing so.

Edit: Nevermind. This can be fixed by offsetting the position by whichever size the inserted tile is.

Could you please tell me how to do this please ?
I'll patch it into next version

[oasuke]

Yeah, It's nothing big. When you position the created object, instead of putting "ObjectPosYOnMap( "Tiled Map Loader" )", change it to ""ObjectPosYOnMap( "Tiled Map Loader" )-16". The tile size is 16x16, so the offset is -16. Without that, the object will be positioned 16 pixels below when using the Insert Tile as Object command from Tiled.

Here is a screenshot of the object tileset I have. Then, I can just use those tiles as images for my objects.


I also included a modified version of your example which shows you the issue. Other than that, so far I've had no problems with Tiled or this extension, and that's considering I've completely switched from my old editor.