I am making a game where I want when you walk in the house for the roof to disappear. I need to somehow associate the ground walls with the roof and upper walls so I can make them disappear when I walk inside. How is best to handle this in Tiled?

Maybe a better way to phrase the question is…why can’t I give properties to each tile instance in the map? Or even at least get the tile unique id. I really cannot see any other way to implement multiple stories or roofs otherwise. How could I even trigger for a door to be opened?

I would recommend is to place a rectangle object (on an object layer). It will also get isometric projection (unless you’re using staggered isometric), making it suitable for marking an area. It shouldn’t be hard to check if your player is within the area marked by such a rectangle object, and you …

[image] Chilli_Bear: Will this feature be added in the future? Maybe. There are many other things on the roadmap so I won’t get around to it in the near future, but anybody else is free to work on it. I would first see if my alternative suggestion works for you.

I spent a couple weeks thinking of workarounds and I thought of your idea but its too much of a hack and will certainly cause unwanted side effects when trying to make cutaway roofs. I’m quite surprised you don’t consider missing Tile specific information to be a critical flaw in Tiled. Please consi…

Can you try to explain why you consider using an object for annotation a hack? In the end it’s the same thing, so I don’t understand what unwanted side effects you’d get.

Conversely whats the point of having tiles at all if you use objects? With the suggested approach I would have to make all my buildings out of objects which in Tiled would be a PITA. Consider that I must somehow be able to render/not render individual tiles and groups of tiles at will. Besides no …

[image] Chilli_Bear: With the suggested approach I would have to make all my buildings out of objects which in Tiled would be a PITA. Consider that I must somehow be able to render/not render individual tiles and groups of tiles at will. I didn’t suggest to make your buildings from objects. F…

You could also just have a special tile layer named IndoorFloor or something, and each frame check to see if the tile on that layer under your character’s position has a tileId > 0. If so, then don’t render the ceiling. With that, you only place tiles on the layer when you want that ceiling disappea…

Honestly these ideas are hacks and make things much more complicated than having tile attributes. I don’t think this will be practical at all for anything beyond very simple setups.

How to associate tiles in different layers (isometric)?

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Chilli_Bear (Chilli Bear) November 10, 2017, 1:39am 4

I’m not familiar with the jargon but what is the outcome?
Will this feature be added in the future?

Which Engine Proper Isometric Layer Rendering?

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