Tiled mapeditor loader?

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1

Anyone have any code or a lib i can use to load tiled map files and display them?

Thanks

2

What if you create one yourself and share it with us :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Here:

        for (int y = 0; y < mapData.getHeight(); y++) {
            for (int x = 0; x < mapData.getWidth(); x++) {
              roodNode.attachChild(loadModelHere);
            }
        }

But yeah, if you want a 2D map designer. There are few available, and you can just display it in JME given that the format is readable. But the question is quite broad.

4

I think OP is being pretty specific. There is a tile editor called Tiled. (http://www.mapeditor.org/) OP wants to know if anyone has already written a loader for it.

My guessā€¦ no.

But a few seconds of googling leads me to believe it wouldnā€™t be hard to implement if no one steps forward with an existing solution:
http://doc.mapeditor.org/reference/tmx-map-format/

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You are correct. Thatā€™s the editor and was looking for a already made solution. I am new to jme and java. I come from c++. I will take a look and start working on it. Good project to use to learn java and jme with.

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One exists in libgdx I believe

7

Also in Slick2D

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FYI: Only loader supported out-of-the-box at the moment is for the TMX format that Tiled uses.

FYI: Libgdx has a loader for the TMX format as well.

Good info for me - Iā€™m looking for a format as well. Iā€™ll dive deeper into this to see if I can make it fit my requirements.

9

Thatā€™s what he said.

You do understand that the OP was specifically asking about Tiledā€™s TMX format, yes?

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Until this thread, I did not know there was a map editor named Tiled with a generally accepted format. I understood it as a general term for ā€˜tiled mapsā€™.

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Correct. Tiled mapeditor uses the .tmx file

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I guess the name is confusing. I already read it correctly so this thread has been kind of strange.

Translated:
OP: Iā€™m looking for a TMX loader, anyone have one?
P2: There are lots of editors available you should be more specific. (resolved confusion there already)
ME: ^^ resolving that confusion mentioning that Tiled is a thing and TMX is the format.
OP: confirming
P3: libgdx has a TMX loader
P4: Slick2D has a TMX loader
P5: Slick2D only supports TMX out of the box (non-information so far as this thread is concerned) Libgdx has a TMX loader (redundant information)

ā€¦so thatā€™s why I was scratching my head a bit since weā€™d already established TMX as the format. Though I guess if you skipped all of that then itā€™s still confusing.

And anyway, I forget that Tiled is not instantly a ā€œThingā€ to everyone else. :slight_smile:

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I think Iā€™ll start working on this, but thereā€™s already libtiled.jar for java-use - so the implementation of processing/using and displaying the data is really the only major gap, and that seems pretty implementation specific. Wouldnā€™t you agree?

In a Zay-ES implementation, I would create a MapAppState to keep track of currently loaded maps (there could be more on a given server), create entities out of all the different tiles, give them the properties they need depending on the tile information in the Map. My client-side ModelViewState would then already be able to display them in the scene.

Should be fun - Iā€™ll report back once I have an update. Any input is most welcome :slight_smile:

Edit: https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/tree/master/util/java/libtiled-java

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Short update from my side:

-Installed Maven
-Cloned Tiled-repository locally and did ā€˜mvn clean installā€™ inside the libtiled folder
-Added to build.gradle:

repositories {
    ...
    //Dependency (parent-tiled) located here
    maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"} 
    ...
}
...
dependencies {
    ....
    //Mapeditor format support
    compile 'org.mapeditor:libtiled:0.17-SNAPSHOT'
    ....
}

-Restarted SDK (wouldnā€™t let me access the jar-content inside code before I did)
-Ready (update will follow)

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Just found out that there is no updated dtd or xsd files for the tmx-format. :chimpanzee_facepalm: Kind of hard to work withā€¦ Wonder if itā€™s worth the trouble to implement a framework to process tmx-files not having a schema to work against.