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   M0rph3v5
   Member

   Hello,

   I've got tilemaps set up and working properly now and wish to be using object layers for things such as spawnpoints etc.

   I ended up at the authors thread:

   http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/2874

   But I'm really clueless at the moment as how you can let it autoparse the objects layer, find corresponding objects and then let it initialise them on its own.

   I've tried creating the exact same situation as the coder there did with the spawnpoint but the parser just won't even enter the spawnpoint object (tried nslogs in it etc.). To my knowledge all you had to do was make sure the 'type' of the object corresponded with the classname of your object / ccnode ?

   I really tried searching all over the place and felt the need to just go ahead and create a thread for it.

   Any form of example code that works would be nice.

   Thanks in advance,

   M0rph3v5

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   BrokenGnome
   Member

   Have you tried this website: http://www.raywenderlich.com/1163/how-to-make-a-tile-based-game-with-cocos2d. I'm using tilemaps made with Tiled for my game and this site has had everything I've needed, including how to do spawn points.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   M0rph3v5
   Member

   i came across that solution yes, but as stated in that tutorial.

   Supposedly, you can get fancy here and set the Type of the object to a Cocos2D class name and it will create an object of that type for you (such as CCSprite), but I couldn’t find where it was doing that in the source code.

   All he does is just get that part of the xml, and parse it on his own. I just want to use the parser that already exists (TMXXMLParser) since that would save some hassle and should work like a charm.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   BrokenGnome
   Member

   The site also mentions that part of cocos2d no longer being functional doesn't it? I'm not sure, maybe someone else around here with more experience can give input, but I've not been able to find any working example of this.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   M0rph3v5
   Member

   If you're refering to:

   Update: Tyler from GeekAndDad.com pointed out that the code used to be in a previous version of Cocos2D, but was removed due to issues with it a while back.

   Which indicates that it should be gone, but it's there unless i'm not understanding the message there :P. It could explain however it not working.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   BrokenGnome
   Member

   lol, I never read it that way, but I guess you could. I always read it as "This used to work, but now it doesn't, and the code is not in new versions of Cocos."

   I looked through TMXXMLParser and it does try to read the type off of objects in the XML file, but I don't see that it does anything with them past that. I'm sure someone else will have an answer for you and I soon enough, I would be interested in know if this works still or not as well.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   araker
   Moderator

   This is what happened to it. Guess you'll have to extend the parser yourself to get this functionality.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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