mapeditor/tiled

Features

• 2D Tile Map Editors - Provides a visual workspace for designing orthogonal, isometric, and hexagonal game environments using grid-based tile sets and layers.
• 2D Level Design - Provides a visual environment for creating 2D game levels using orthogonal, isometric, and hexagonal grids.
• Tileset Editors - Tiled Map tools for importing and modifying image-based tilesets, including support for animations and external asset references.
• Schema-Driven Data Export - Serializes map structures into standardized JSON or CSV formats for consumption by external game engines.
• Game Asset Management - Provides systems for creating and tracking reusable image-based tilesets and assets to ensure visual consistency across game levels.
• Grid-Based Coordinate Systems - Implements a flexible grid system supporting orthogonal, isometric, hexagonal, and oblique orientations for map organization.
• Layer-Based View Hierarchies - Provides a layered hierarchy for managing visual elements with independent visibility, locking, and parallax scrolling.
• Level Design Tools - Offers a comprehensive workspace for placing game objects, defining collision boundaries, and attaching metadata to world elements.
• Map Data Serialization - Saves complex map layouts and custom metadata into JSON and CSV formats for use in game engines.
• Map Layer Management - Organizes visual elements into stacked layers with independent visibility, locking, and parallax scrolling properties.
• Multi-Orientation Grid Systems - Supports the creation of visual environments using orthogonal, isometric, hexagonal, and oblique grid orientations.
• Object Layer Authoring - Allows placement of non-grid entities as geometric primitives to define collision boundaries and game logic.
• Collision Detection - Includes a collision editor for assigning specific geometric shapes to individual tiles to define physical boundaries.
• Property-Based Metadata Systems - Allows attaching arbitrary key-value metadata to maps, layers, tiles, and objects to define custom game behaviors.
• Collision Map Authoring - Allows defining geometric boundaries and physics properties for game objects and tiles to handle character movement.
• Custom Property Assignment - Enables attaching arbitrary metadata including strings, numbers, booleans, and colors to maps, layers, tiles, and objects.
• Tilemap Data Exports - Exports visual map designs and custom properties into structured JSON or CSV files for integration into game engines.
• Tileset Management Systems - Includes a shared reference system to integrate and manage multiple image-based tilesets within a single map.
• Tileset Managers - Includes a dedicated manager for importing and editing image-based collections of reusable tiles and animations.
• TMX Map Exports - Exports structured map data into various formats, including TMX, JSON, and CSV, for external engine use.
• Game Metadata Configuration - Provides tools for attaching custom properties and data attributes to map elements for use within a game engine.
• Automated Tile Transitions - Implements automated tile placement and transitions based on neighboring tiles in a terrain set.
• Tiled Map Integrations - Provides specialized support for loading and parsing Tiled map files within Java-based game environments.
• Editor Scripting Interfaces - Exposes internal editor functions to an external scripting language for automating tasks and creating custom tools.
• Level Editor Automation - Features a scriptable interface and plugin system for automating repetitive map creation tasks.
• Rule-Based Terrain Painting - Automates tile transitions by applying predefined neighbor-matching rules during the terrain painting process.
• Scriptable Plugin Architectures - Provides a scriptable application interface and plugin system to automate editor tasks and create custom tools.
• Terrain Texture Painting - Provides painting tools for creating seamless transitions between different ground types using rule-based terrain sets.
• Level and Tilemap Editors - General-purpose editor for tile-based game levels.

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