Making tilemaps for LOVE?

[AirPump]

Is there a way I can use a tile editing program to export a simple 2D array containing tile numbers to place in a map? It seems like every tile editor I use likes to either 64-bit encode map data or put it in an unnecessarily bloated array, containing labels all over.

For example, say that tile 0 is a O and tile 1 is an X, and I want a map like this:

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OXO
XOX
OXO

How can I use a tile editor to export a text file like this?

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table = {
{0,1,0}
{1,0,1}
{0,1,0}
}

You wouldn't think it would be that hard, but I can't seem to find a solution to this problem. Does anyone know any way to do this with a tile editor?

[osgeld]

tiled uses base64 encoding which is pretty simple to decode, but the gzip compression has been abit more elusive within the lua/love world

mappy on the other hand is a tad bit easier to read, but it seems much more difficult to make it mean something, due to its chunk structure and basicly nill documentation

those are the 2 major ones that seem to come up, and I have not had much experience with other less known programs

[AirPump]

tiled uses base64 encoding which is pretty simple to decode, but the gzip compression has been abit more elusive within the lua/love world

mappy on the other hand is a tad bit easier to read, but it seems much more difficult to make it mean something, due to its chunk structure and basicly nill documentation

those are the 2 major ones that seem to come up, and I have not had much experience with other less known programs

Well, how do you unencode base64 encoding? I'm kind of a noob to the more technical bits of programming.

[osgeld]

http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour

course it doesnt get you far with tiled maps since the data is in both base64 and gzipped

[AirPump]

http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour

course it doesnt get you far with tiled maps since the data is in both base64 and gzipped

I think you can turn off gzip, though.

[subrime]

or use io.popen... (works on linux/osx... unable to test on windows, sorry)

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file='zippydata.gz'
f=io.popen('cat '..file..' | gunzip')
data=f:read('*a')
f:close()

[bartbes]

(works on linux/osx... unable to test on windows, sorry)

I thought io.popen works, but I know there are no cat and gunzip on windows. (cat can be replaced by type, but you'd still need gunzip)

[osgeld]

io functions work fine in windows but yes you will need gzip which is not a default package of windows like it is on other os's