Flare map

MagicWars engine supports Flare map format. Flare map can be created with Tiled software

Flare map format decription

Flare map is a text file contains all neccessary infomation to create game objects

Common file structure

[header]
width = <val>
height = <val>
tilewidth = <val>
tileheight = <val>
<some additional parameters, unused in MagicWars>

[tilesets]
tileset = <tileset name>,<param1>,<param2>,<param3>,<param4>
tileset = <tileset name>,<param1>,<param2>,<param3>,<param4>
...

[layer]
type = <layer1 name>
data = <array i,i,..., contains tiles indexes size should be width*height>

[layer]
type = <layer2 name>
data = ...

<can contain any number of layers>

All tiles in MagicWars must be 64x64 pix, so tilewidth and tileheight parameters should be equal 64

MagicWars maps should have determine sizes:

• Extra small map (XS): 8x8 tiles
• Small map (S): 16x16 tiles
• Medium map (M): 24x24 tiles
• Large map (L): 32x32 tiles
• Extra large map (XL): 40x40 tiles
• World map (H): 64x64 tiles

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Text map could be parsed by Flare engine in MagicWars and be represented with special classes

Flared_NS::Map map;
Flared_NS::Parser parser("example_map.txt"); //parse text file
parser.construct(map); //represent structure into inner format
cocos2d::Node* node = map.getMapTree(); //get nodes tree

Automap & Rules

Rules from map