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Im making a platformer and i have a designated spot on the map for the start player location. Is there a way to get the x and y of that say, layers object and this being the only thing the layer prints?

thanks im learning but im still not that great.

This is how most people set locations for dynamic entities and other things that need to be added in game, instead of in the map editor.

They will use a different layer to specify where thing go, such as the player start location. Then, they will take a tile with a property of something like "object", and a value of maybe "playerstart" (or whatever you want to use). Then, in the game code, they just look for this property, and set that as the player start location. This will also work for pretty much anything like that, such as enemy start locations, things like that.

You could also just set the x and y of the starting point in the map properties pane. Never tried this, but I'm sure it works fine. Just whichever is easier for you.

i agree with TheTwitchy: best idea is a layer for non-drawable thing in tiled, with a special properties, for example: player start, enemies positions, etc..

You can see here a little example:

https://timehero.svn.sourceforge.net/sv ... Mappa.java

When i load map file, i load matrix for every layer: player, objects..