Advanced Tiled Loader - No longer maintained

[Karai17]

I don't think there is an "easy" way, but I may be wrong. What are you trying to do, specifically?

[markgo]

So I have been testing several things with ATL. I found ATL today and I must say I like it a lot.

What I would like to know however is the following:
Is it possible to see if a tile has an object 'on top' of it?

For example, I have a tile layer and I want to know from that specific tile if a polygon is covering that tile.
Is there an easy way to do this?

Could anyone help with this?

One way I can think of is to get the bounding box of the polygon. Then get the range of tiles covered by the bounding box and do: tile = tilelayer(x,y) to get the tiles under the object.

[Karai17]

That would probably be one of the better ways to go about it.

[BurnsMan]

Could you make a YouTube Tutorial on how to use the Loader to make a 2D Platformer?

[micha]

If you are okay with reading, then read this tutorial:
Platform game programming tutorial
It uses Advanced Tiled Loader.

[markgo]

Not to hijack Kadoba's thunder, but I made a fork of this. It's a rewrite, but the internal table structures are mostly the same as before. I dropped things which made the code complex such as view culling and drawing individual tiles (Every tilelayer uses spritebatches now). Saving is not supported currently.

* See branch v0.2 for ability to limit draw range
https://github.com/markandgo/Advanced-Tiled-Loader

EDIT: You can now save maps
EDIT2: Added basic support for staggered orientation
EDIT3: Added demo

EDIT4: (2013/12/4) Stable release! No docs yet sorry. Demo included in repository.

Things that are new:
- Ellipses actually look like ellipses instead of boxes
- Class module to make it easier to extend classes
- Improved draw range control
- Staggered map support

[Daniel Eakins]

Not to hijack Kadoba's thunder, but I made a fork of this. It's a rewrite, but the internal table structures are mostly the same as before. I dropped things which made the code complex such as view culling and drawing individual tiles (Every tilelayer uses spritebatches now). Saving is not supported currently.

https://github.com/markandgo/Advanced-Tiled-Loader

EDIT: You can now save maps
EDIT2: Added basic support for staggered orientation

Are the function names different? Without documentation this is pretty much unusable for many users.

[markgo]

@Daniel Eakins

It's currently WIP, but when it gets more stable, I'll whip up a demo and docs.

[Daniel Eakins]

@Daniel Eakins

It's currently WIP, but when it gets more stable, I'll whip up a demo and docs.

Thanks!

[pacman]

Ugh I have problem with reworked ATL for 0.9.
Everything was fine with 0.8

AdvTiledLoader/Map.lua:188: attempt to call field 'tileData' (a nil value)

from using this code

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function isColliding(map, x, y)
	local tileX, tileY = math.floor(x / map.tileWidth), math.floor(y / map.tileHeight)
	local tile = map("walls", tileX, tileY)

	return not(tile == nil)
end

From Map.lua

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function Map:__call(layerName, x, y)
	return self.tileLayers.tileData(x,y)
end

I have no idea what could go wrong.
Any ideas?