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L÷VE for Lua Game Programming

You're reading from   L÷VE for Lua Game Programming If you want to create 2D games for Windows, Linux, and OS X, this guide to the L?ñVE framework is a must. Written for hobbyists and professionals, it will help you leverage Lua for fast and easy game development.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782161608
Length 106 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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AKINLAJA DAMILARE JOSHUA AKINLAJA DAMILARE JOSHUA
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Loading solid tiles into the bump


Now we are going to fetch all the solid tiles/layers and make them respond to collision. We'll do this by the using the FindSolidTiles() function; but first we'll load the tiles from Tiled with LoadTiledMap(levelFile) which will later override map = loader.load() that we already defined; this is because we want our bumped tiles to load when the tile map loads:

   --our tiles are 16x16 sizes, so we should declare the width and height as 16
   local tWidth = 16
   local tHeight = 16
function LoadTileMap(levelFile)
   map = loader.load(levelFile)
   FindSolidTiles(map)
--set this to false, will be made true later on.
   map.drawObjects = false	
end

---create a table to hold all the solid tiles, you can call it blocks

blocks = {}
---from the layer labelled "platform" within tiled, we call the layer and strip out all the tiles, 
function FindSolidTiles(map)
    layer = map.layers["platform"]
-- get the width and height of each and set them inside the
    for...
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