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[mirosurabu]

Is there any solid and free library which comes with more universal editor for manipulating 2D layered tile-based maps? I am too lazy to write one myself. Especially lazy to write an editor.

I've been using tegel for my CPB entry. It's solid library, has somewhat good editor, but unfortunately I had to separate object-data from the main map because what it offered wasn't enough to satisfy my object-data requirements. And it's pain in the ass to put objects on the map using text files.

[Bad Sector]

Check out my Mapas editor. Its not a library but has an easy to read and use fileformat (and in the site you can find two libraries - one for java called STTD and one for C called badcfg - which can parse and read these files and generate a nice tree structure from them... although you'll need to "parse" that tree by yourself). Also it contains two exporter plugins which use even simpler formats (one uses basically a simplified format that contains almost everything a regular .mapas file contain but in an easier to parse syntax and the other uses tile names and contains only these, but can be used as a base for your own plugins).

[Hajo]

Tiled is nice, too. Open source, java:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiled/

[Hayden Scott-Baron]

I highly recommend Mappy!

I've used it for a number of games. We ended up writing a custom exporter which exported the timemaps in a format that we could plug directly into our game, so it was very streamlined when in full production.

[siiseli]

The first thing I made in c++ was my own tile-library-thing. It's not hard and not too much work to do it yourself. But I recommend mappy if you're lazy as shit.

[BMcC]

Yeah, it's not hard work.  And you can tailor it to your game's specific needs.

[Hayden Scott-Baron]

I found myself using Mappy last night just to test whether a tileset of mine would work seamlessly. It was handy because it allows me to zoom in and out, so I could check the pixels were lining up perfectly.

I also like that Mappy has the function to export a BMP file of your entire map. This is often gigantic of course, but very useful. We often use it to print out our levels on several sheets of A3 to plan things out further.

Of course, writing your own tile editor is always preferable. Depends on your game really. I'm an artist more than a coder though, so I tend to avoid re-inventing the wheel whenever possible in order to get work done quickly.

[Loren Schmidt]

I use Mappy as well. It's a little clunky, but it gets the job done.
8bitRocket has an XML exporter for it if you need that sort of thing.

[Kneecaps]

Are there any good tile-based libraries out for AS3 yet?  I've started working on one, but there's a good chance that I'll get distracted before I finish it.

[Kneecaps]

Bump because I would like my question answered, but do not want to make a new thread.

[magnum_opus]

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/ has a haxe exporter which can probably be used to jury rig something for straight AS