Overview

CCTiledMap knows how to parse and render a TMX map.

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 Tiled layers will be added as a child
• The Tiled 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)

Notes:

• Each layer is created using an CCTileMapLayer
• You can obtain the layers at runtime by:
• [map getChildByTag: tag_number];
• [map layerNamed: name_of_the_layer];

Supported editors

• Tiled http://www.mapeditor.org/