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   willf
   Member

   This may be a stupid question, but I'm just going over some of the documentation regarding the support for Tiled Maps.

   Assuming I have the following correct
   I can only use one tileset.
   A tileset can only reference one sprite sheet?
   A sprite sheet image maximum size is 1024x1024.

   Does this mean for any given map, the number of differnt types of tiles i can have, must fit inside all the 1024x1024 image size limitation? So hypothetically speaking if my tile was 512x512, then I could only have 4 different types of tiles in this map.

   Is this correct?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   riq
   Key Master

   Yes.

   And since v0.8.2rc1 you can use as many tilesets as you want, with the limitation that you can use ONLY one tileset per layer. You can't put tiles from 1 different tilesets in one layer.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   willf
   Member

   So you're saying if I only intend to have 3 layers, I could only have 3 tilesets? So I would be bound by the number of layers I have.

   Would it be possible to pull sprites from another spritesheet at runtime and swap them in? Or would that just totally mess everything up.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   riq
   Key Master

   @willf:

   you can do:
   . move tiles from one layer to another as long as these layers share the same tileset

   you can't do:
   . move tiles from one layer to another if these layers use different tilesets

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   Scoobadood
   Member

   Hi Riq,

   How do you associate a tileset with a layer? Tiled doesn't seem to have any mechanism to do this. I've tried moving the tileset element inside the layer element in the TMX file but the parser just seems to choke when it sees a second tileset tag.

   Thanks
   ScoobaDood

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   riq
   Key Master

   What you should do is to put tiles from ONLY 1 tileset per layer.

   See the latest example of "TileMapTest" that comes with cocos2d. It uses 2 tilesets and 3 layers:
   - layer1: tileset1
   - layer2: tileset2
   - layer3: tileset1

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   Scoobadood
   Member

   Thanks, my bad, I was loading the wrong TMX file.

   All good now.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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