Libgdx - Use Tiled or http://tide.codeplex.com/ ?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi Guys, in my actual game im using Tiled and TMX

But i was checking this tide, and hmm, i saw this :

Automatic tile transitioning (autotiles)
Animated tiles

Which one is Better?

#2

use whichever one suits your game better.

#3

But it seems that tide have more things like those automatic tile-change , i was wondering if i could create like a cataract without coding in java :slight_smile:

#4

I’d stick with Tiled since LibGdx supports tmx format out of the box.

#5

LibGDX supports Tide maps, too :slight_smile:

#6

Having played with both I have found tide support in libGDX to lack some features and the tide editor. Unless I am mistaken, tide editor only seems to run on windows.

#7

https://c.getsatisfaction.com/tibbo/topics/tide_on_linux
In theory, you could run it under Linux on WINE. And if OSX has an equivalent of WINE, then use it!

#8

Of corse you could so that with most things, but it is nice to work with native tools.

#9

Hmm… Now im unsure if i keep with tmx or i go with TIDE …

#10

There is WineBottler. I’m playing tomb raider on osx with it.

#11

The only Tide-specific feature supported out of the box in libgdx is animated tiles. I like Tide myself (and that’s why I added it to libgdx) but you’ll probably have a better time with Tiled. You can use dermetfan’s libgdx-utils to get animated tiles from a tmx map, among other things.