tiledimporter-kaboom

Tiled Importer For Kaboom Documentation

Introduction

This plugin is designed to import and implement tiled maps to kaboom.js games. This extension only supports csv encoding and other types are not planned to supported any time soon.

Usage / Documentation

Functions

Initialization

Just use import it and add it to plugins section:

import tiledImporter from "tiledimporter-kaboom";
import kaboom from "kaboom"İ
const k = kaboom({
    // the plugin
    plugins: [tiledImporter]
});

Importer

The importer is a class that contains all of map and tileset data as well as the methods to load them. To have the importer use this:

let importer = k.importTiledMap(map, tilesets[]);

The map should be a path to the json file or the map data itself. The tilesets[] should be an array of strings to json files or the data itself. If you wish to import tilesets from the map do not pass any value for this argument.

Loading Data

Two functions exist for loading data and they are:

importer.loadMap()
importer.loadTilesets()

Both of these functions use promises to handle async loading so use async/await or another kind of implementation to handle them. These do not return anything but load the data to be used by the importer class. Please invoke loadTilesets even you wish to use a built in one.

Retrieving Data

There are 3 functions that can give data about the map and the tilesets.

importer.getLayers()

This function returns an array to represent name and type of each layer. Let us see an example object:

[
    {
        name: "Foreground",
        type: 1
    },
    {
        name: "objects",
        type: 2

    }
]

An enumeration implementation was used for handling layer types, it is accessible from the importerclass as layerTypes.

importer.getTilesets()

Just returns a array of tileset names.

importer.getTilesetIndex(name)
importer.getLayerIndex(name, type)

These functions are used to get the index of tileset and layer based on their names. For layers, type parameter is optional, can be used to differentiate among layer that have same names. It must be an number according to the layerTypes enumaration. Indexes retrieved from these methods will be used for implementation methods.

Implementation Methods

There are 3 implementation methods. All of these methods have somethings in common:

• All of them return a gameobject referance where the layer is implemented
• All of them can take a gameObject parameter where the game object is specified to implement the layer to. If not specified new one will be created.

importer.addTileLayer(layerIndex, sourceImage, tilesetIndex, gameObject, optimizationMode, drawAsOneImage)
importer.addObjectLayer(layerIndex, gameObject)

Both of these methods take layerIndex as returned from getLayerIndex method. sourceImage refers to the kaboom sprite name implemented while loading the sprite. Such resources must be implement in your code. TilesetIndex is the index of tileset returned from getTilesetIndex method. optimizeMode is for solid tiles who will be covered with static body/area components. Since each tile will have its own body component, it might impact performance. This paremeter can allow collision objects expand horizontally or vertically to reduce their numbers. This paremeter accepts an enumeration defined at the tiledImporter class called: optimizationModes. It has values of VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL, NONE. drawAsOneImage parameter denotes whether to render the tileLayer as seperate cell objects or as a single object with a custom component, mapDrawer. This component automatically handles dynamic rendering with camera so it will not render any part that is not shown.

importer.addAllLayers(gameObject, sourceImage, tilesetIndex, optimizationMode, drawAsOneImage)

This method loads all layers from the map but there is an condition, all tile layer must use the same sourceImage, tilesetIndex, optimizationMode and drawAsOneImage as required by the method.

Tiled Custom Properties

Custom properties implemented in tiled maps and tilesets are used for assigning components to gameobjects. For now and probably in the future, only custom properties assigned to objects in objects layers and tilesets for tile layers will be used for assingning components.

Tileset Properties

Property	Type	Description
tags	string	tags that will be added to the object, a whitespace will be used for seperating them so multiple ones can be added.
solid	bool	what the tile should be solid (static). An area and body is added.

tile and offscreen components are added by default.

Object Properties

Property	Type	Description
tags	string	tags that will be added to the object, a whitespace will be used for seperating them so multiple ones can be added.
area	bool	adds a area component, uses width and height property of the object to construct a Rect positioned at relative 0.
body	bool	Adds a body component, it wont add an area component by default so do it yourself.
sprite	string	Adds the sprite component where the image name is taken from the value.