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Hi guys,

I've been using Tiled as my main map editor fo quite some time, and I've reached a point we're I need to destroy some tiles during gameplay, so I wanted to add a simple destruction animation.

Before I used to just erase the tiles and draw the animation above the tiles, but it's a bit dirty.

Can I do this with Kev's Tiled classes (read the javadoc and this is nowhere to be found) or should I create my own classes with support for animations?

Thanks in advance...

if you were to write it here is what you could do:

just put the animation frames in different layers, and then have hte top layer have a data thing called animation = true. and thena all the other info, like speed and tha kinda stuff .

Are you talking about creating a animation on the fly with data from all the layers?

It's still a hack of sorts... I would rather have a sort of native Slick Option coupled with Tiled.

Thanks for the response, I'll try it anyway...

I am saying incase that there isnt any way to do it with slick.

and who knows, maybe kev will add it later if it works enough

I'm studying how TileMap, TileSet and Layer work.

I'll override the TileSet class to add Animation as well as a SpriteSheet.
Properties of the Tileset shall define were animation begin and end, and their speed.

Also I'm thinking of using tiles in the map editor and then replace them with the appropriate ingame animation, but I would like to have an automatic way to create a level in map editor and then just reading it.

I'll post my results soon enough...