Overview

CCTMXTiledMap knows how to parse and render a TMX map.

It adds support for the TMX tiled map format used by http://www.mapeditor.org It supports isometric, hexagonal and orthogonal tiles. It also supports object groups, objects, and properties.

Features: – Each tile will be treated as an CCSprite – The sprites are created on demand. They will be created only when you call “[layer tileAt:]” – Each tile can be rotated / moved / scaled / tinted / “opacitied”, since each tile is a CCSprite – Tiles can be added/removed in runtime – The z-order of the tiles can be modified in runtime – Each tile has an anchorPoint of (0,0) – The anchorPoint of the TMXTileMap is (0,0) – The TMX layers will be added as a child – The TMX layers will be aliased by default – The tileset image will be loaded using the CCTextureCache – Each tile will have a unique tag – Each tile will have a unique z value. top-left: z=1, bottom-right: z=max z – Each object group will be treated as an NSMutableArray – Object class which will contain all the properties in a dictionary – Properties can be assigned to the Map, Layer, Object Group, and Object

Limitations: – It only supports one tileset per layer. – Embedded images are not supported – It only supports the XML format (the JSON format is not supported)

Technical description: Each layer is created using an CCTMXLayer (subclass of CCSpriteBatchNode). If you have 5 layers, then 5 CCTMXLayer will be created, unless the layer visibility is off. In that case, the layer won’t be created at all. You can obtain the layers (CCTMXLayer objects) at runtime by: – [map getChildByTag: tax_number]; // 0=1st layer, 1=2nd layer, 2=3rd layer, etc… – [map layerNamed: name_of_the_layer];

Each object group is created using a CCTMXObjectGroup which is a subclass of NSMutableArray. You can obtain the object groups at runtime by: – [map objectGroupNamed: name_of_the_object_group];

Each object is a CCTMXObject.

Each property is stored as a key-value pair in an NSMutableDictionary. You can obtain the properties at runtime by:

    [map propertyNamed: name_of_the_property];
    [layer propertyNamed: name_of_the_property];
    [objectGroup propertyNamed: name_of_the_property];
    [object propertyNamed: name_of_the_property];