cspotcode / py_arcade_tiled

Decorators and functions to help you describe a class in Python, then place instances of it in the Tiled editor.

• Takes decoratored python classes, and emits Tiled "custom types" configuration.
• Emits Tiled "templates" to enable quick drag-and-drop of objects.
• When loading a Tiled map, returns instances of your classes, with custom fields populated.

Caveats: example tiled files are incomplete, I copy-pasted them from another project. The example does not run. This is a sketch of the API, it is not functional.

Workflow

• Declare a class for every type of object you want to be placed in the map editor. example/objects.py
• Create a TiledLoader that knows about all those classes: example/configure_tiled.py
• Run write_tiled_configuration to write/update Tiled project files, teaching Tiled about your classes.
• Edit a map in Tiled, dragging-and-dropping the templates that have been automatically created for you.
• In game startup code, run loader.load_map() to load the map.