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Hi guys,
So, I created my game (stupidly) before knowing about the standard tilemap formats. I instead used flat text files that have each line looking like the below:
g0000aa0000g
00000aa00000
000000000000
000000000000
000000000000
00000000000r
I'm wondering if there is some tile map editor that I can jury rig to use a custom format such as that which my proprietary level files use.
Thanks - DK
Well you could possibly code up a translation from your format to the TMX format using the TMXGenerator that I wrote. It's only in use by a few people but seems fairly solid so far. Essentially you'd write a class that loads your level data and then feeds the TMXGenerator your loaded map data (which saves it to disk for you in the TMX format).
Make sure that you grab the code from github as it's been improved beyond what was originally posted.
Thanks slycrel, that's pretty cool. Ideally I'd like to keep my levels in their current format though since I already have an importer for them in the game... I'm also cautiously considering writing my own level editor in Java, although I am concerned about how much time that may take (that's the cautious part of the consideration).
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