Using tilesets across multiple ios devices

Questions
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First of all, I would like to say thanks for this brilliant tool. Great job!

I just started to using it and with no problems made my first level. I am sorry for the nubish question, but I can’t figure out, how to design levels to support different iOS devices. I created a map of size 1024x768px with 32x32px tiles. And everything works fine. But I want to support retina displays, so I suppose that I need to include @2x images to the project. But I don’t know how to do this. Should I just add a new tileset with @2x images to the project like I did for @1x images and Spritekit will do the rest or this is more complicated problem?

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Generally you’ll want to design your maps in Tiled using either your 1x or 2x images and deal with loading another image and using different tile dimensions in your game / engine. I would expect SpriteKit to only handle loading a different image automatically, but you’ll probably also need to make sure to double or half the tile size or to use tile-size agnostic texture coordinates.

I don’t think there is much Tiled could do to help you with this, but suggestions are welcome.

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Thanks for your reply, bjorn.

Is this means that I need to make different .tmx file for each device ?

For example to support iPad retina and non-retina displays:

  • level-1-32px.tmx with dimensions 1024x768px with 32x32px tiles
  • level-1-64px.tmx with dimensions 2048x1536px with 64x64px tiles

and so on, for iPhone 6+
-level-1-96px.tmx with tiles of size 96x96 ?

This is exactly what I want to avoid if possible :frowning:

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No, I meant you create one map file, and deal with the resolution difference in your game / engine.

So, suppose you create your map in Tiled using the low-resolution assets. Then, when you load this map on a device with high-resolution display, you make sure to load the higher resolution tileset image and adjust other parameters where necessary to make sure the map gets drawn correctly.

5

Oh, nice :slight_smile: Many thanks for “steering” me in the right direction :slight_smile: