A guide to level creation with Tiled [ + how to use it with pygame ]

Im pretty sure example unity, especially Godot has everything needed for tiling making this program useless, in 2024 i dont really see why i should use this...

tryingt o follo your tutorial, which has been great....until.....Tiled. Downloaded latest version for Mac OS and went to give it a spin and it literally dies constantly. just flat out freezes, or ui fails to respond or it just locks up and crashes. Very frustrating piece of software.

Came back to this a year later to solve a bug that meant only Objects and Floor showed up.

Floor, Ground, Plant and rocks, Pipes layers are render order dependent, so the Floor needs to happen first and the hasattr is not as good as selecting the layer names individually, because of the Floor overwriting things.

I removed 'Floor' from the tuple and everything turned up.

Having now got the ground, vegetation, pipes and objects to appear in the top corner, I still have to figure out why the floor is rendered in grey rather than brown. I think it is processing but not rendering, but I'd expect to see black in that case, but commenting out the floor loop is also grey. So more debugging, but at least progress.

Also found the continuous path thing seems to not be working now - maybe something in Tiled 10.2? Maybe I overlooked something. It worked fine a year ago, but I updated the Tiled version.
So did some manual placement to get a few pipes into the top corner.

I desperately need something like this but for the ipad :(

This has been suuuper helpful! The only remaining question I have about this program is, am I able to select a chunk of tiles and drag them to a new position? (As opposed to manually erasing and re-stamping a section) The selection tool works a bit differently than I'm used to and I only seem to be able to drag the entire layer.

Thank you so much for the video ❤

I love it. excellent work.

Thank you for this video, it is very helpful, but I have a question, how could the shapes created in the object layer be used for things like collisions or detecting elements in that area? Because I would like to use them that way but I don't know whether to do so that this shape like a sprite is the most recommended

Thank you for everything you do

i love you other tutorials but this one is very confusing. it is soooo strung out and a bit all over the place. can you make a more structured of this is how you do it step 1, 2, 3? more planned out?

? so where's the playing of the map that was created in tiled?

getting the error: No module named 'pytmx'
i have installed pytmx

New tileset button doesn't exist this program is so annoying to use with not enough straight forward guides

You really make good videos, i am not a engish speaker but i understand almost everything so good job

just 2 lines of code and i already get an error.

the code:
from pytmx.util_pygame import load_pygame
map = load_pygame('my.tmx')

the error:
...in _cast_and_set_attributes_from_node_items
casted_value = types[key](value)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '0.0151515'

google is not helping in any way, i await your response

Great tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience

sorry for a sad question, but you state you have used CSV import (yep done that) but also the other method (pytmx) & have an example of using this. I can only find the CSV used & don't quite understand the pytmx thingy- can someone point me at this please? Cheers!

how can I get the tileset to show up on the side on the same window as the game map? I accidentally crossed it and I don't know how to get it back. the tile sets keep opening in a new window so I cant use them

I sponsored the Tiled project for about two years. Finally starting to use it. LOL. Great tutorial.

please make a video on how to scroll tmx file maps

how to scroll through the thing

how to check collision in Tiled?

I will never afford a keysight dishclothe but I don't let that get me down or have gear envy haha

anyone knows how to get the terrain to work with a platformer/sidescroller tileset?

And how do you tackle the terrain problem? Nothing was said about that :(

this video is amazing

Thanks very much.

Other than making the graphics myself, where can I find the graphics for tiled?

beautiful video, thank you for your time

Very detailed video🔥, but I still got the problem. I can't draw. Just a transparent blue square running after the cursor even though the Tileset has loaded. Please tell me what could be the problem?

what is load pygame?

Question, can you make fake tiles? when I say fake tiles I mean tiles that are like in the background(behind he terrain tiles), are slightly dimmed and you cant collide with them?

Everything's amazing except that when i load my 2d tile map, its small. I have no idea how to make it bigger so it could be full screen. Is there a way to make the map bigger using the pygame or pytmx modules???

Hello! I'm having an error with the PyTMX module, when I install it (with pip ir even pip3) and wanna call it in the code I get an error: NoModuleName 'pytmx'

Heelp :/

thank you so much for your free and super high quality tutorials as always. you are helping me learn to program. I'm having trouble finishing this video. when I tryto get the object's type rather than showing the type (for example: 'shape') python is just prints it out as 'None'. I assume this is something I did wrong inside of Tiled. thanks for your videos again and thanks in advance to anyone who might help

Nice man ty

I realized that the object layers did not export, when you used the .csv option? Anyway to fix that so you can export the object layers as a .csv file?

Hi! I have a problem, when using the TMX file on python, I cant get the object type, on tiled it says class insted of type, so python returns None :(

Great video, the menu works great

THANKS FOR THIS IV BEEN SEARCHING FO SOOO LONG

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Take ti, enjoy it most of all and results will follow

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