What software is compatible with the program Tiled? Been trying to make an 3D or 2d RPG for pc.
Defold can work well with Tiled generated maps to make RPGs like Pokemon or Final Fantasy. Have you gone through any of the Defold tutorials yet?
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Tiled has support for defold, as explained here Tiled map editor export to Defold (SOLVED) :
Go to Preferences in Tiled then plugins and enable the libdefold.dylib by ticking it.
You can then export as Defold *.tilemap format
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it’s quite easy also to read the json Tiled can export without any plugin - and then create the tilemap inside Defold runtime (even if this way you need to have an already compatible tileset/tilesource pair in your project - with correct dimensions (must be equal or bigger) and layer names)
Doing that you can use also object layers - in order to create game objects with factories (using also custom properties)
This is a sample code to fill Defold tileset reading content from Tiled json (I cut it from my current game - it’s possible something won’t compile - I can have missed an end or more and it has references to my variables - but I think could give you an idea how to proceed if you want to check this way)
function createleveltilemap(self,filename)
local jsonstring = sys.load_resource(filename)
local data = json.decode(jsonstring)
local width = data.width
local height = data.height
local tile_height=data.tileheight
local tile_width=data.tilewidth
local layers= data["layers"]
level_realmaxx=width*tile_width
for k, v in pairs(layers) do
local layer=v
local name=layer.name
local tiles=layer.data
local objects=layer.objects
if tiles then
local hname=hash(name)
local x=0
local y=0
for idx, index in ipairs(tiles) do
if index==-1 then
else
tilemap.set_tile("map#level",hname,x+1,height-y,index)
end
x=x+1
if x == width then
x=0
y=y+1
end
end
elseif objects then
for idx, obj in ipairs(objects) do
local name=obj.name
local type=obj.type
local x=obj.x
local y=obj.y
local w=obj.width
local h=obj.height
local health=-1
local activationway=1
if obj.properties then
for p, prop in ipairs(obj.properties) do
if prop.name=="health" then
health=tonumber(prop.value)
elseif prop.name=="activation" then
activationway=tonumber(prop.value)
end
end
end
if type == "hero" then
local pos = vmath.vector3(x+w/2, height*tile_height-(y+h/2), 0)
go.set_position(pos,"/level/player")
elseif type == "villain" then
local pos = vmath.vector3(x+w/2, height*tile_height-(y+h/2), 0)
local villain=factory.create("#enemiesfactory",pos,nil,{id=1+#villains,maxhealth=health,name=hash(name),activationway=activationway,reachpos=0+#villains})
table.insert(villains,villain)
end
end
end
end
end
end
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