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Merged @thaaks Isometric Support (commit d0a74b4374b8) into current TiledMap's

Added ZLIB compression support (code needs to be reviewed)

Added parsing for opacity/visibility values of layers (need to still make render method render opaque layers)

• 0.8 Feature - IMPLEMENTED Flipping and Rotating Tiles
• 0.8 Feature - IMPLEMENTED Polygon Objects
• 0.8 Feature - IMPLEMENTED Polyline Objects
• 0.8 Feature - IMPLEMENTED Coloured object groups (doesn't render objects in colour as usual)
• 0.8 Feature - IMPLEMENTED Tileset properties
• Some optimisations and code cleanups here and there

Currently the support for Tiled 0.8 is almost complete. All I need to implement is "specifying a tile drawing offset" (it says this is a feature, but I can't find any documentation about it in the UI etc.) and writing Tiled 0.8 maps.

As usual, the code is pushed to my repo. I will push when everything is done. Currently stable.

After using the new Tiled classes, I encountered an empty string error when loading layers without opacity. I solved this by replacing

with


in both the Layer class and the ObjectGroup class.
should I push this fix to dev?

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I have already solved this bug, no need to push to dev. Currently all the Tiled0.8 stuff is in my branch, I will push it all over to dev soon.

Roger

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• 0.8 Feature - IMPLEMENTED Rendering of layer opacity/alpha
• Writing of 0.8 maps

This should be full support for Tiled 0.8 Maps.

I've created a pull request.

Question:

Does or is it planned to support streamed maps using Tiled?

Speaking about online applications that download a small part of the map and add/remove stripes of tiles at every step. The the actual map is VERY large (10000 x 10000 tiles) but the client "knows" only a smaller part of the map.

Nitram

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Well Tiled support is currently static in the sense that no it cannot do that. It would be a very large pain to implement this, but I suppose it's achievable.

Hi Liam,

Where can we get a copy of the integrated code? I'm looking forward to trying it out, the original TilEd support has a really weird and cumbersome API!

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When will this be added to a nightly build?

Is there a unofficial up-to-date build somewhere?

Does TiledMapPlus make modifications outside of the tiled folder, i.e. can I just copy the files from bitbucket and have them outside the stable slick build?

This project looks really promising and I'm looking forward to using it in my game.

Is it the same for TiledMapPlus? I want to make a game with a generating world (think Minecraft) and it should only load (stream) a part of the whole map so that it also could be used for multiplayer.

So does TiledMapPlus support these two things?

It hasn't been implemented. Streaming is a very complex process, that would probably be more suitable to a binary format. None the less, it can be achieved with Tiled. I'll describe the process, and if you don't understand it, you probably won't be able to implement it.

The map is divided into chunks. Chunks are fixed in size (say, 16 by 16 tiles). Chunks are loaded around where the player is, in the order of closest to furthest. Whenever the player moves to a new chunk, another chunk in the farthest opposite direction is removed. This way, we are not exhausting memory by storing all the chunks. Objects are different, because they are not necessarily organized into structure. The general approach is to store all the objects and periodically search and remove all the ones we can't see.

Why would you use Tiled for this? Tiled is a means of loading maps from the tiled editing software. If you are generating your maps and streaming them, you would want to create your own map format, and you wouldn't have need for a map editor.

Check out my "Engine", I work on if I have time:
https://github.com/Regiden/RadicalFishEngine

I made a nice map engine which writes raw data so you can load the maps in any application. The Engine provides Interfaces in Java to load maps and also provides you with a gzipped stream. You can easily setup a Thread to stream maps with that. There is not much doc about but a small test.

Map Package:
https://github.com/Regiden/RadicalFishE ... /world/map

Test:
https://github.com/Regiden/RadicalFishE ... h/test/map

This is all very easy and raw but you can use it as a basic idea

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Understood. Although implementing this might be quite hard (and even more so if your are quite a noob in game developement) so I might try working on other stuff first.



The reasoning for using Tiled is to have a map editor in place (which might be needed anyway) and also not having to reinvent the wheel, because I think that my map format would share a lof of the features of Tiled's format.

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Wow thanks! I'll look into it