jaythomas / cartographer

Simple Tiled map loading for LÖVE.

Cartographer

Cartographer is a small library for loading and drawing Tiled maps in LÖVE.

Installation

To use Cartographer, place cartographer.lua in your project, and then add this code to your main.lua:

cartographer = require 'cartographer' -- if your cartographer.lua is in the root directory
cartographer = require 'path.to.cartographer' -- if it's in subfolders

Usage

Loading a map

map = cartographer.load(path)

Loads a Tiled map in Lua format.

• path - the path to the map to load.

Drawing the entire map

map:draw()

Updating the map

map:update(dt)

You only need to do this if your map has animated tiles.

Accessing layers by name

map.layers[name]

While you can access layers by numerical index as usual, Cartographer allows you to access layers by name as well.

Drawing individual layers

map.layers[name]:draw()