Automapping: Double Width/Height Tile Rules about tiled

[Bryan-Legend]

FYI, I'm using this for a silverlight game that's available at http://smote.com Give it a shot.

I'd really like to see this happen so I'll put a bounty on it. I'll paypal $50 to whoever implements the fix and sends me a build before 9/30/2011.

[stefanbeller]

Hello Lone-Coder,

When I understand you right, the problem is this rule http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6520164/tiled/problematic_rule.png

If you are not interested to have it repeated exactly like A-B-A-B-A-B and so on, but in a random fashion,
(example: A-A-B-A-B-B-A-B-B-B-B-A-A-B-A ... just randomly)
this ruleset will apply: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6520164/tiled/InternalExample.zip
The random placement can be archieved by putting multiple layers for one destination layer.
Changes were only done in ruleSet1.tmx: there is now another rule1_Wall layer which has different tiles
for that given rule in that layer.

If you need to have it exact A-B-A-B (which is indeed a serious cool and needed feature), I'll give it a try on the weekend.

[stefanbeller]

So the solution as of now is this:
Whenever a rule gets applied, it is previously checked if within all touched layers, this rule was not applied to the same (=overlapping) location.

Unfortunately this solution takes a lot of CPU time, so it is switched off by default.
(only needed rules should be switched on then;) This can be done by adding the property "NoOverlayingRules" set to true
to the specific map.

[stefanbeller]

Here is a Windows build for tiled,
which includes a functionality to make double wide rules
in automapping possible:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6520164/tiled/tiled-0.7.x_lonecoder-win32-setup.exe
This build is off my current Automapping branch,
(https://github.com/stefanbeller/tiled/commits/AutomappingLoneCoder)

[Bryan-Legend]

That works perfectly Stefan. Thank you so much! You rock! I've sent over the paypal payment.

Bryan Livingston

[stefanbeller]

@lone-coder:
This feature has been merged into the official tiled version by @bjorn.
Now you can either wait for a regular release or check out the daily builds found here:
http://files.mapeditor.org/daily/