digitalmars.D.announce - dtiled v0.2 - a library for tilemapped games
- rcorre (33/33) Jun 21 2015 dtiled v0.2 is out, and for better or worse, it got hit by a
- Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce (5/33) Jun 22 2015 Hey cool. I haven't thought about tiled for years!
dtiled v0.2 is out, and for better or worse, it got hit by a serious case of feature creep. v0.1 was simply an easy way to load maps created with Tiled (http://mapeditor.org). v0.2 attempts to provide much of the functionality commonly needed by tilemapped games. I like to hack around on tilemapped rpg/strategy games, and noticed I was copying a lot of the same map-handling code everywhere, so I took a shot at lib-ifying it. The new tilemap modules (dtiled.grid and dtiled.map) are independent of the Tiled map-loading module (now called dtiled.data). You don't _have_ to load your map from a Tiled json file, any 2D array will work. However, as a whole, these modules should provide a nice road from creating a map in Tiled to working with it in a game. You can check out: The source: https://github.com/rcorre/dtiled The dub package: http://code.dlang.org/packages/dtiled The docs: http://rcorre.github.io/dtiled/index.html The demo: https://github.com/rcorre/dtiled-example dtiled is intended to be game-engine independent; the demo can currently be run using either DAllegro (requires allegro5) or DGame (requires sdl2) as a backend. My next goals are pathfinding and a more interesting demo. I've considered adding support for other Tiled map formats (tmx and csv), but I'm not sure that is valuable as anyone using Tiled has the option to export to json, which should contain all of the necessary data. Eventually, I may add support for isometric and hexagonal maps.
Jun 21 2015
Hey cool. I haven't thought about tiled for years! I contributed the terrain painting system years ago ;) Nice to see a lib in D! On 22 June 2015 at 13:45, rcorre via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:dtiled v0.2 is out, and for better or worse, it got hit by a serious case of feature creep. v0.1 was simply an easy way to load maps created with Tiled (http://mapeditor.org). v0.2 attempts to provide much of the functionality commonly needed by tilemapped games. I like to hack around on tilemapped rpg/strategy games, and noticed I was copying a lot of the same map-handling code everywhere, so I took a shot at lib-ifying it. The new tilemap modules (dtiled.grid and dtiled.map) are independent of the Tiled map-loading module (now called dtiled.data). You don't _have_ to load your map from a Tiled json file, any 2D array will work. However, as a whole, these modules should provide a nice road from creating a map in Tiled to working with it in a game. You can check out: The source: https://github.com/rcorre/dtiled The dub package: http://code.dlang.org/packages/dtiled The docs: http://rcorre.github.io/dtiled/index.html The demo: https://github.com/rcorre/dtiled-example dtiled is intended to be game-engine independent; the demo can currently be run using either DAllegro (requires allegro5) or DGame (requires sdl2) as a backend. My next goals are pathfinding and a more interesting demo. I've considered adding support for other Tiled map formats (tmx and csv), but I'm not sure that is valuable as anyone using Tiled has the option to export to json, which should contain all of the necessary data. Eventually, I may add support for isometric and hexagonal maps.
Jun 22 2015
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 11:05:28 UTC, Manu wrote:Hey cool. I haven't thought about tiled for years! I contributed the terrain painting system years ago ;) Nice to see a lib in D!Nice! I make use of Tiled's terrain tool regularly, its a huge time saver. I've considered adding some terrain functionality to dtiled for situations where the terrain can change in-game (e.g. the player can place walls, which affect how nearby walls are drawn). I may have to ask you about the implementation if I ever get around to that :)
Jun 23 2015
Is it's possible to use this lib for tiling jpg? I am planing to try to create online service that will load tiles depending on scale (zoom). Front and is js, but I think backend should be based on lib like this.
Jun 24 2015
"rcorre" <ryan rcorre.net> On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 12:16:56 UTC, Suliman wrote:Is it's possible to use this lib for tiling jpg? I am planing to try to create online service that will load tiles depending on scale (zoom). Front and is js, but I think backend should be based on lib like this.Hmm... I'm not sure. Its hard to tell from your description. The readme and docs should make it clear what this library can do -- if not, let me know!
Jun 24 2015