TMX TiledMaps supported!

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Hello Community,

just for completeness, I also post here that AndEngine now also supports TiledMaps

The format I chose (better to say 'I was made aware of' ) is the TMX format. TMX is a XML based format, that is mainly human readable but still has very small file-sizes. The biggest plus of the TMX format is that it has a fully featured and easy to use cross-platform Map-Editor called "Tiled", which can be obtained for free here: http://www.mapeditor.org/.

I also added an Example:
http://code.google.com/p/andengineexamp ... ample.java

So don't forget to grab the latest andengine.jar from the repository to get in touch with this cool stuff .

I'm awaiting some awesome RPGs in the next weeks

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[Radzell]

Don't worr about the rpg i am hiring some pixel artist on Wednesday so that is in the works hopefully by the end of march. Also is there a collision between the walls in tmx or do i have to program that in myself.

[Nicolas Gramlich]

No there isn't but it can be done pretty easily. Have a look here: features/tmx-properties-objects-support-t188.html

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[Nicolas Gramlich]

New video showing how to get the tile at a specific location in the scene.


Example-Code is located in the TMXTiledMapExample.

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[zmatokan]

I am playing with TMX tiles now, and i was wondering if that whould be a smart way to make a sidescroling game? I tried, and it looks good, but when i add a physical body, my framerate goes way down. I am using an emulator so that might be the case. Any thoughts? Thanks

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Emulators suck

Always test performance on a real device

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[zmatokan]

Lol, the problem i, i don't have a real device yet

[hasan]

Is there any example for isometric tile map please. I could not find any so if you please write something for us.

Thanks

[Mathew]

Isometric maps are not supported by andengine. But there was solution posted by IFL about how to achieve this, so search, you should find it.

[morlicando]

Tiled maps is so slow when adding collision...

Can you help me and tell me how too boost it?