Comments on: Know when to be lazy

By: Poopa

Poopa — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:29:24 +0000

Managed to get some things to work, however it seems that some Tiles wont read its properties correct..some are null even if i’ve placed properties for them :/

By: Poopa

Poopa — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:11:55 +0000

Got it to work in my own project, but what if i would like to change the position of the map etc? I have a rather big tileset and would like to change position of the camera.. the map.Draw method just seem to take Spritebatch..

By: Poopa

Poopa — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:51:19 +0000

I’m having trouble just building the demo you made…

Error 1 Building content threw FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.

By: Ziple

Ziple — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:22:22 +0000

Thank you, it’s working like a charm now!
Yeaaahh!

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:33:15 +0000

@Ziple: You can fix that by finding any of the int.Parse or float.Parse in the library and adding a second parameter of CultureInfo.InvariantCulture. I should have remembered that.

@Shalarim: Nice find. I had no idea you could end up with an object that didn’t have a width and height.

By: shalarim

shalarim — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:29:51 +0000

Nick,
After following your excellent Alien Aggressors tutorial (just started trying to learn XNA this week), I started reading around for more tutorials and read this blog post. I managed to get a map up and running without too much difficulty.

After getting a basic map displaying, I moved on to trying to add some objects, first up was a pair of start points for my players. Here’s where I found a problem, the MapObjectContent class assumes that the objects will have a width/height. Whereas I had just added points.
I tweaked the code to get around this:
Location = new Rectangle(
int.Parse(node.Attributes["x"].Value),
int.Parse(node.Attributes["y"].Value),
node.Attributes["width"] == null ? 0 : int.Parse(node.Attributes["width"].Value),
node.Attributes["height"] == null ? 0 : int.Parse(node.Attributes["height"].Value));

Hope this helps prevent other people from running into this error.

Thanks for the tutorials and sample codes
Shalarim

By: Ziple

Ziple — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:41:21 +0000

I would like to say YEEAAAHHH…
But it doesn’t work for me.
I just get this error while compiling your demo:

Error 1 Building content threw FormatException: Le format de la chaîne d’entrée est incorrect (translation: incorrect string format).
in System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
in System.Number.ParseSingle(String value, NumberStyles options, NumberFormatInfo numfmt)
in System.Single.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
in System.Single.Parse(String s)
in TiledContentPipeline.LayerContent..ctor(XmlNode node) dans C:\Users\Me\Documents\Projects\XNA\TiledDemo\TiledDemo\TiledContentPipeline\Content Types\LayerContent.cs:line 25

I suppose it is due to the fact that the decimal separator in the french language is “,” instead of “.” .
I do not know how to fix the problem so, could you help me please(I’m sure it will also help a lot of other people)?

Thank you.

By: jessechounard

jessechounard — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:19 +0000

My posts are up. Thanks a ton for posting about Tiled, and for your code. I like it alot. Part 1 Part 2

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:37:45 +0000

It’s all Ms-Pl so you can extend it, re-release it, blog it, or do whatever you want with it.

That’s probably a good fix there. The property of TmxProcessor was sort of an afterthought for me. I tend to just keep the tile images with the maps.

By: jessechounard

jessechounard — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:46:28 +0000

This is pretty neat. I’ve been playing with it for the last couple of days, and I like it. Is it alright if I do a blog post expanding about this on my site? (I’m using reflection to automatically create game objects based on the stuff in the MapObject layers.)

I had a bit of a problem with the paths. I setup my folders just like you did in the example, but then Tiled couldn’t find the png file, since it was looking in the same folder. If I fix that, Tiled uses a relative path like “../TileSets/Tiles.png” which confuses Path.Combine in the TmxProcessor. So I changed that bit to this:

Path.Combine(TileSetDirectory, Path.GetFileName(tileSet.Image))