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Hello i was just wondering if there is a way to animate tiles on a tileD map.

yes, just implement a system for it^^
like using the objects system of Tiled with specific properties.

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cool i'm new to slick and i don't really know anything about it i tried following the tutorials but there not really what i'm looking for. How would i learn to implement this system? I could just make my own tilemaps that automatically come with animation capabilities.

i did some messing around and i made 1 tile animate by adding this code to my render method



This is problematic because i would need to find each tile on the map that would need to have its graphic changed.

I'm going to continue messing around with the other methods maybe see if i can use the tile properties to my advantage. But that's for tomorrow its bed time now.

I have animated tiles in the TWL Tiled Demo.
This is done at load time by converting this tile to an animated one.

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@giuseppe105

Oh well that you should avoid xD No what I want to say is, that you should use the objects system of the Tiled Map Editor^^ Set a Object, then name it (like "water"). No you add some properties like, which tiles it takes.
I did this by settinga propertie named "start" with the value x,y. and a second propertie telling me the amount of tiles the animation takes horizontal from the start point ( + some other properties but the basic system works that way).

When reading the objects I just check all objects layer (well not really, I just check one^^) and load the animations.

note that this only works on passive animations.

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so when i make my map i create an object layer and set properties to that object then i have java read the objects properties and populate an animation. Then where ever an animation would be placed on the map i draw the animation?

This seems more of a work around to not being able to use animated tiles. I think its a better idea to make a 2d array of a animations and just make a method to populate it. useing the tiled map

No it's not much work... When i had the idea it was done in one hour. What you want to do is pretty much hard coded.
Slick already has a super easy to use Animation class. I just mak a new intance of an Animation an tell it the tiles it should use for the animation. Water and Waterfalls or other NONE moving objects a made this way. Anything is made via my own map editor.

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I'm having a hard time understanding you. I don't want to ask for code without giving something in return but.

Could you show me how to set up objects and could you show me how to deal with them in java.

Okay, well I will try... (not that could in explaining stuff)

First, make a new object layer and name it: "Animations".

Now you just add some objects, and make sure the size of them is suitable for the size of tiles. There is an option in Tiled for this (can't check this right now). Name the Objects in a typical way. e.g. water for water animations.
Now add the following Properties and values:



So know to read the layer make an new class which extends from TiledMap.
In the constructor, you just iterate trough the object layers an search for a layer with the name: "Animations". Now you iterate trough the objects from this layer and add a new Animation for every entry, add frames like set in the Properties.

That's all, Just work with Tiled Editor and get use to it and stuff, you will see that this is a good way to add static none moving objects to the map.

I can't post src sry... Maybe my PC will return next week and i can post some code. Tho it's dirty right now xD

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ok i will try but i still don't understand how i would display the animations where they should be on the map. And how i would get the other frames. And what is X and Y? X and Y on the map or X and Y on the tileSet?

I managed to get a 2 frame animation running by drawing different layers of the tiled map. But it has some problems.

1. I have to hardcode the switching of frames and would need to hardcode different animation patters.
2. I am not useing the functionality of slick 2d.

@MatthiasM

I see that you have an animated tile but how dose this help me?

I have no idea what TWL is what its used for or how to use it.

I would like to learn how to make my maps have animations in them too just as you did.

If you could help me in anyway possible that would be awsome

The animation is created by adding a property to the base tile (which is placed on the map):
This property can set the animation speed (in this case 200 ms per frame) and it specified which tile images should be cycled through.
Now when a tile 46 is found inn the map it will render the tile images 46...51.

This is handled by my tiled map renderer (which uses TWL - a OpenGL GUI library).

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So you create an object for every tile with an animation?

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Every tile image is represented as an Image object - the animated ones are just a bit more complex

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