Tiled collection of images swapped when loaded into Corona SDK using Ponytiled

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#1

I followed a video by CoronaGeek on how to load a map into Corona SDK using Ponytiled. I made my own collection of images and created a tileset in Tiled. Then I created an object layer and built my map. When I load the map into Corona SDK using Ponytiled, the images I created are swapped with each other. The map layout remains but the images are swapped with each other.

This is my code:

local ccx,ccy,cw,ch,acw,ach = display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY, display.contentWidth, display.contentHeight, display.actualContentWidth, display.actualContentHeight local tiled = require "com.ponywolf.ponytiled" local mapData = require "flatmap" local map = tiled.new(mapData) map.x,map.y = ccx - map.designedWidth/2, ccy - map.designedHeight/2

And that’s all I have in my code. Nothing surprising. Any help is highly appreciated.

I have attached 3 images, my tiled view of the map, my code, and my corona sdk view… Hope this gives an idea on what’s wrong.

#2

I followed a video by CoronaGeek on how to load a map into Corona SDK using Ponytiled. I made my own collection of images and created a tileset in Tiled. Then I created an object layer and built my map. When I load the map into Corona SDK using Ponytiled, the images I created are swapped with each other. The map layout remains but the images are swapped with each other.

This is my code:

local ccx,ccy,cw,ch,acw,ach = display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY, display.contentWidth, display.contentHeight, display.actualContentWidth, display.actualContentHeight local tiled = require “com.ponywolf.ponytiled” local mapData = require “flatmap” local map = tiled.new(mapData) map.x,map.y = ccx - map.designedWidth/2, ccy - map.designedHeight/2

And that’s all I have in my code. Nothing surprising. Any help is highly appreciated.

I have attached 3 images, my tiled view of the map, my code, and my corona sdk view… Hope this gives an idea on what’s wrong.

VERY URGENT. I COULDN’T FIND ANY SOLUTIONS.

#3

I seem the remember a similar thread over the past couple of weeks. You might want to look back over the past couple of weeks and see if there is a solution offered there.

Rob

#4

I just checked the lua file of the map. The IDs of the objects started from 0. I changed it so that it starts from 1 and goes on, it works fine. But now the problem is, whenever I export the map after making some changes to it in tiled, the IDs still start from 0. I don’t want to change them all the time I export a map + it’s time consuming when I have more objects in my file. How do I solve it? Is there any options in Tiled to solve it?

#5

Maybe you can augment all of the indexes by 1 - What is the process for exporting them?  Do you use lua files or something like XML or JSON?

#6

I used lua. Augmenting by 1 works but when I make changes in tiled and export them again, it comes back to the same issue.

#7

You might want to reach out to the tiled developer and see if he can have the Lua export use 1 based indexes since that’s the language default.

Rob

#8

Perhaps you could write a module to adjusts the values before they are viewed on the target platform.  I’ve done something like this for JSON files before - it essentially adds another step, which is annoying, but works.

#9

My reco is to use JSON files and not the lua import. There is some code in there to recognize a lua table and start the import from 1 vs. 0, but it always seems to break.

The lines are…

 for t = 1, #tileset.tiles do local tile = tileset.tiles[t] if tonumber(tile.id) == gid - firstgid + (data.luaversion and 1 or 0) then return tile.image, flip -- may need updating with documents directory end end

If you can get them working for you…

#10

I followed a video by CoronaGeek on how to load a map into Corona SDK using Ponytiled. I made my own collection of images and created a tileset in Tiled. Then I created an object layer and built my map. When I load the map into Corona SDK using Ponytiled, the images I created are swapped with each other. The map layout remains but the images are swapped with each other.

This is my code:

local ccx,ccy,cw,ch,acw,ach = display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY, display.contentWidth, display.contentHeight, display.actualContentWidth, display.actualContentHeight local tiled = require “com.ponywolf.ponytiled” local mapData = require “flatmap” local map = tiled.new(mapData) map.x,map.y = ccx - map.designedWidth/2, ccy - map.designedHeight/2

And that’s all I have in my code. Nothing surprising. Any help is highly appreciated.

I have attached 3 images, my tiled view of the map, my code, and my corona sdk view… Hope this gives an idea on what’s wrong.

VERY URGENT. I COULDN’T FIND ANY SOLUTIONS.

#11

I seem the remember a similar thread over the past couple of weeks. You might want to look back over the past couple of weeks and see if there is a solution offered there.

Rob

#12

I just checked the lua file of the map. The IDs of the objects started from 0. I changed it so that it starts from 1 and goes on, it works fine. But now the problem is, whenever I export the map after making some changes to it in tiled, the IDs still start from 0. I don’t want to change them all the time I export a map + it’s time consuming when I have more objects in my file. How do I solve it? Is there any options in Tiled to solve it?

#13

Maybe you can augment all of the indexes by 1 - What is the process for exporting them?  Do you use lua files or something like XML or JSON?

#14

I used lua. Augmenting by 1 works but when I make changes in tiled and export them again, it comes back to the same issue.

#15

You might want to reach out to the tiled developer and see if he can have the Lua export use 1 based indexes since that’s the language default.

Rob

#16

Perhaps you could write a module to adjusts the values before they are viewed on the target platform.  I’ve done something like this for JSON files before - it essentially adds another step, which is annoying, but works.

#17

My reco is to use JSON files and not the lua import. There is some code in there to recognize a lua table and start the import from 1 vs. 0, but it always seems to break.

The lines are…

 for t = 1, #tileset.tiles do local tile = tileset.tiles[t] if tonumber(tile.id) == gid - firstgid + (data.luaversion and 1 or 0) then return tile.image, flip -- may need updating with documents directory end end

If you can get them working for you…