Support for TMX/Tiled workflow

[RussellTaylor83]

Hello.

I was looking into writing a external package, or even just a basic tool, to make use of Tiled tmx files and produce something Ebitengine understands.

I bumped into this old thread, but all of the libraries are 5+ years old.

#1069

I'm new to Ebitengine so before I go too far into this does supporting tmx files make sense at all? Or does Ebitengine have it's own workflow/approach to building tile maps that I've missed?

Many thanks

Russ

[realskyquest]

the current library for parsing tmx files is noted in awesome-ebitengine repo, which is currently the most reccomanded one, last commit is 5 months ago.
https://github.com/lafriks/go-tiled

as for ebitmx, it seems no longer maintained, u might need to make ur own solution, this post on reddit might be useful https://www.reddit.com/r/ebiten/comments/lqyeii/ebitmx_a_library_to_render_a_tmx_file_with_ebiten/

Ebitengine does not have its own workflow for tilemaps.

[RussellTaylor83]

That is really helpful, thank you. I'll see how I get on and maybe over time I'll make something worth sharing. Much appreciated.

[SolarLune]

Overall, it's pretty straightforward - you're really just loading a TMX file into a format that you can parse / iterate through and then drawing to the screen or a texture with Ebitengine. Any stable TMX loader would be able to do the first job, and the second is relatively simple once you've got the data loaded.