Simple Tiled Implementation - STI v1.2.3.0

[Karai17]

You're going to want two sets of numbers: grid_x/y and act_x/y.

You will use the grid set for checking collision and incrementing by whole numbers, and use the act[ual] set for your tween.

[sam]

probably should have said this beforehand, but i'm using a free-moving player, so it's not gridlocked. i'd assume it's the same method, so in either case i'll get on adding the grid_x/y thing

[Karai17]

It's the same yeah, but you need to make sure your player doesn't change grids until he is actually moving to a new grid. In this case, you might want to do a sort of "search" for the nearest tile to determine which tile you should be comparing against.

[Foopy64]

Hi there, just coming by to say great work! This thing works wonders and soon I will hopefully have a game to show it!

[Karai17]

I look forward to seeing how my STI works out for you. ;D

[Eamonn]

I'll be using this soon hopefully! I haven't used LÖVE in almost a year and when I came back to find that ATL was "abandoned" so to speak, I was so worried. I was thinking "How can I used Tiled maps in my games using LÖVE now?? I really don't feel like writing my own system", but then I saw this.

I hope that this can do everything I'd need it to do (load Tiled maps, get information on Tiled tiles for collision, and maybe even find/replace tiles inside a map for animated tiles and stuff). If it does, then I'll have found a very viable and useful replacement/alternative to ATL.

Anyway, I assume it can at least load maps and get information from specific tiles, so if it can do that then it's an even more extremely awesome library! Cookies to you!

[Karai17]

The only thing STI does not currently support is tile animation, and a few other things in the issue tracker that I haven't had time to get to. Otherwise, you can load a map, get properties from the map, draw the map, etc.

Check out the documentation for more detailed info.

[Rukiri]

This seems like it progressed quite a bit!

The last library I used for tile importing would load the tile but when I got towards the edge of the screen I'd see black not the end of the map, did your implementation solve this issue?

[Karai17]

That is a camera issue, not a lib issue. You need to implement a camera check to see if you are displaying off screen or not.

[Rukiri]

Solved the camera problem, but working out another problem. Tiled Objects.
I want to animate my tiles and thought using objects and calling the object in love would make things easier.

Have an easy way of fixing this issue? I guess it's not really an Issue with STI but the documentation around tiled objects is scarce.