TMX Maps Support for Starling Framework
Overview
This extension is based on the one created by Shaun Mitchell, and allows a starling game to load and display a TMX Tilemap created using Tiled
The major contributions include:
- Compatible with Starling v1.3
- Target is Tiled 0.9.0
- Ability to use tilesets with margins and spacing
- Improved performance by using flattened sprites
- Support for properties
- Support for Objects and Objectgroups
- more to come...
This extension is still under development. If you want to contribute, feel free to help out.
Known issues:
- Can't load tilemaps that use a TSX tileset
Examples
There is an example project included with the extension. Here's one though:
Loading your tilemap using embedded assets and displaying it:
[Embed(source="../../../../assets/example.tmx", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private static var exampleTMX:Class;
[Embed(source = "../../../../assets/tmw_desert_spacing.png")]
private static var exampleTileSet:Class;
// (...)
var mapXML:XML = XML(new exampleTMX());
var tilesets:Vector.<Bitmap> = new Vector.<Bitmap>();
tilesets.push(Bitmap(new exampleTileSet()));
var mapTMX:TMXTileMap = TMXTileMap.createMap(mapXML, tilesets);
for (var i:int = 0; i < mapTMX.layers.length; i++)
{
addChild(mapTMX.layers[i].layerSprite);
}