Thanks for another awesome video! Super useful as well. A lot of tutorials about using Tiled for Love2D are either very old, or very low quality, so seeing this appear in my notifications page made me very excited. I can definitely see you gaining a much bigger following as the Love2D community becomes larger and larger. There’s just no one on youtube right now making videos as good as yours! Keep it up!
Hey Kyle! I finished your course and it helped me out A LOT! The basics are done absolutely right and clean. I'm absolutely loving making stuff up from scratch. Haven't watched this yet but I'm stoked. I just finished my tiny level1- tiled project and this came right on time.
day 4 of learning lua, and your videos are helping a ton! started off with the classic "hello world" and pongs, now im designing an actual game! the tiles external is vital in helping me with map making. ive already designed my own custom sprite, working on custom animations to replace my web generated sprite
There is so much more info on getting started with Love2D. Lately I tried to get started with DOME, which runs over Wren. Neither of these languages I could understand, but I do understand Love2D for some reason.
This is really cool! I should probably use Tiled, but I'm currently waiting until I settle on a language / framework, and then I'm gonna make my own :)
Keep these videos going! I just started using Love2d and you make some of the best tutorials for it! You definitely deserve more subscribers and I’m looking forward to the next videos!
@@Mcsjjcollins that's unfortunately pretty dependent on how your game is setup, like with its camera. In the next stream I can show off how I do cutscenes in my current project, that would probably be a solid start. Basically I just change the camera's position to point somewhere else in the level, where something else is going on, and then pan back to where the player is
I love everything in these tutorials. I haven't had a single issue that you didn't explain very well. I do however have one issue that I am trying to solve with no luck where when I move up or down I get lines that appear for a split second and it happens every couple of seconds but it only happens when I am moving up or down and never left or right. Its strange! Anyways, thank you for everything you do! Edit: I used the math.floor on the players position to fix the white lines that shown up.
Amazing video! Understandable and quick to the point! Just a question: Do you know where I can learn about "map switching"? (Switching from game world map to an npc house map for example). Thanks!
I struggled with this trying to use my own assets. I had to start over and rewatch the video. tried again with the provided sample assets and it worked. then I started over a third time with my own assets and it finally worked. not sure where I was going wrong at first but I was getting my whole map in the window zoomed out.
I'm sure this is a little late, maybe this will help someone else, make sure you click the "Embed in map" option when you are creating the new tileset. If you forget to do that, you can click a tiny little icon under that section that says "Embed Tileset" when you hover over it. Don't forget to re-export!
Can someone explain me this error happening? Error libraries/sti/init.lua:99: STI does not support Tile Collections. You need to create a Texture Atlas. Traceback [love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' [C]: in function 'assert' libraries/sti/init.lua:99: in function 'init' libraries/sti/init.lua:48: in function 'sti' main.lua:6: in function 'load' [love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function [C]: in function 'xpcall' [C]: in function 'xpcall'
this series has been helping me make my game but one problem that i have is that my character stopped moving around when i added the background. only animations
So when i added in my map into my code it did show up however it was really small which is not what i want. Do you know a way to either upscale the map or zoom the camera inwards?
you cant load the game images/tileset out of game folder (else you get an error) change it changing the image of tileset to the same but in game directory
Hey, If you see this please reply because I'm stuck. I've been on and off using Love2D and following your tutorials for about a year maybe 2 now, because whenever I try to make a game I get completely stuck at this part. So let me ask: How do I control the Z-Axis of my textures, when my character walks behind a tree I want the tree to cover them, then when they walk in front of it, they should be above the tree. I've been stuck on this for way too long, please help!
@@SSJwalker unfortunately never figured it out, I gave up, I always get stuck here and never seem to find any results, its been like 3 years i've been trying to do this, I've asked all around the internet with nothing, please lmk if u ever find a way.
@@three_ make a new layer for only a specific set of tiles, like trees, in tiled. make a new object layer for Y sort positions, and just put points at where you want the transition between drawing above or behind the player. In love, you can extract the x and y position of everything in that object layer (I forget how to do this, but challacade does have a tutorial that explains it, the collision tutorial). take every single point, and get the closest one to the player. you can do it using simple vector math, just subtract the point's position from the player's and then use the pythagorean theorem to get the distance. after getting the closest point, check if it's above the players position. if it is, draw the layer FIRST, then the player LAST. otherwise, do it the other way round. if you have objects close to each other, as in 1-2 tiles above, then you might want to put them in separate layers. tell me if you have issues, you'll probably get them because I've been up for 18 hours and dying inside help merweapt9e8yfdhsi
I am having a problem using the lua tiles. I am trying to draw a red circle on top of my tiles but using love.graphics.setColor() turns everything red, including my tiles. in my draw function I first draw gameMap:draw(), then set the color of my circle and the draw my circle. What am I doing wrong here?
@@Challacade That worked like a charm. Thank you so much! If you don't mind, I have another quick question: I am trying to print a simple table to the console in VS code but I cant find my print anywhere. What am I doing wrong? what am I missing? Thank you in advance!
This Video is Just amazing. Thank you so much for helping us to learn how to Code I have one question tho I am using a tileset thats 8x8 because i Like smaller Textures but when i load it in Love its so small. Is there any way to scale it Up or cant i use it?
I'm a bit late but yes you can define a scale so everything you draw looks bigger on the screan. Its love.graphics.scale(sx,sy) you can find its documentation online
tilemaps are for pixel art. you can make the entire level in a different editor which supports SVG, then download that as another SVG and use it in love, but otherwise, stick to having it convert to png.
But I keep getting this error Error libraries/sti/init.lua:893: attempt to index local 'self' (a nil value) Traceback [love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' libraries/sti/init.lua:893: in function 'draw' main.lua:11: in function 'draw' [love "callbacks.lua"]:168: in function [C]: in function 'xpcall'
In this case I knew because I created it, but to check, you could use an image editor (paint, GIMP) and see how big each tile is, or you could check the width/height of the tileset and divide the number of horizontal tiles
@@darkfrei2 In Tiled, you can go to View -> Snapping to turn off grid snapping, so you can set things at the individual pixel level. Then for polygons, you can draw polygons on the object layer, there's a dedicated tool for that.
i got this error: Error libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: Could not open file ../New folder (3)/tileset_sheet.png. Does not exist. Traceback [love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' [C]: in function 'newImageData' libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: in function 'fix_transparent_color' libraries/sti/init.lua:102: in function 'init' libraries/sti/init.lua:49: in function 'sti' main.lua:6: in function 'load' [love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function [C]: in function 'xpcall' [C]: in function 'xpcall'
I absolutlely love your video and I'm currently following it, but now I'm stuck here at the map making process. Whenever I try to open the game it just says: Error libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: Could not open file ../Assets/Sprout Lands - Sprites - Basic pack/Tilesets/Grass.png. Does not exist. Traceback [love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' [C]: in function 'newImageData' libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: in function 'fix_transparent_color' libraries/sti/init.lua:102: in function 'init' libraries/sti/init.lua:49: in function 'sti' main.lua:6: in function 'load' [love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function [C]: in function 'xpcall' [C]: in function 'xpcall' I'd be greatly appreciate it if you can help me
what is solve Error libraries/sti/init.lua:99: STI does not support Tile Collections. You need to create a Texture Atlas. Traceback [love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' [C]: in function 'assert' libraries/sti/init.lua:99: in function 'init' libraries/sti/init.lua:48: in function 'sti' main.lua:6: in function 'load' [love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function [C]: in function 'xpcall' [C]: in function 'xpcall
pls help me, i did all good but wen i loaded my game at last it said this: Error libraries/sti/init.lua:94: STI does not support external Tilesets. You need to embed all Tilesets. Traceback [love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' [C]: in function 'assert' libraries/sti/init.lua:94: in function 'init' libraries/sti/init.lua:49: in function 'sti' main.lua:6: in function 'load' [love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function [C]: in function 'xpcall' [C]: in function 'xpcall'
@@Xx_DemiStar_xX I actually just figured out. A few reasons: 1. Make sure the tilesets you imported in to tiled are images from within the folder where you’re running your game from. 2. Make sure they are all embedded (botttom right of the tiled screen, second button from the left). 3. Make sure the tiled project contains no tilesets that are neither not embedded nor saved somewhere else other than the folder where your game is at. Save enough reexport
hello please see this i am having trouble ive been learning you code and its super fun. ive completed all the code in this video but when i start up the game it says Error libraries/sti/init.lua:45: Syntax error: maps/testmap.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '
Hi, thank you for the effort of offering such great tutorials. Because of them, I will try to make my first game using Löve2D. I noticed that the use of tools and libraries is highly necessary since love2d covers the basic set of features only. I would like to know if you will gradually show these tools and libraries or if you think to make a video with a list of names and purpose. I am still watching your videos, so what I would like to ask probably is already explained and that is: how, given a map, the collision is implemented? For example, as far as I imagine, if you load the map onto the game as-is, and try to walk where the tree is, the character would just walk over it, right? I also would like to ask if the collisions are made with boxes or - for any reason - is it possible to define it more fine grained. For example, from the player animation tutorial, it was 4 x 4 different sprites, right? If the background of each sprite is transparent, is it possible to easily define that the border of the sprite is the collision perimeter? Thank you.
Next video will show stuff on collisions. As far as matching collisions to a sprite, that work has to be done manually. In general, I tend to make a shape that's close enough, since it normally doesn't have to be pixel-perfect
Thanks for another awesome video! Super useful as well. A lot of tutorials about using Tiled for Love2D are either very old, or very low quality, so seeing this appear in my notifications page made me very excited. I can definitely see you gaining a much bigger following as the Love2D community becomes larger and larger. There’s just no one on youtube right now making videos as good as yours! Keep it up!
Thank you! I really appreciate the words of encouragement
Hey Kyle! I finished your course and it helped me out A LOT! The basics are done absolutely right and clean. I'm absolutely loving making stuff up from scratch. Haven't watched this yet but I'm stoked. I just finished my tiny level1- tiled project and this came right on time.
Hey do u know a touch screen controls pls I wanna make a Android game I'm just begginer at coding and love2D and in just 12 years old
@@neithancrack7649 I dont know that. Sorry but. But if I go thru learning that I'll defo contact you
Thank you! This is good stuff, subscribed. I like your style, clear, no-nonsense and to the point.
day 4 of learning lua, and your videos are helping a ton! started off with the classic "hello world" and pongs, now im designing an actual game! the tiles external is vital in helping me with map making. ive already designed my own custom sprite, working on custom animations to replace my web generated sprite
Your video series is REALLY AMAZING. Thank you so much for all that you do.
This lesson was so cool! That Tiled Map Editor program is really awesome!
There is so much more info on getting started with Love2D. Lately I tried to get started with DOME, which runs over Wren. Neither of these languages I could understand, but I do understand Love2D for some reason.
This is really cool! I should probably use Tiled, but I'm currently waiting until I settle on a language / framework, and then I'm gonna make my own :)
I actually started learning because of these tutorials!
Keep these videos going! I just started using Love2d and you make some of the best tutorials for it! You definitely deserve more subscribers and I’m looking forward to the next videos!
Thank you!!
@@Challacade You’re welcome! I mean I’m still very new to this, but do you think you could create a video over how to implement in-game cutscenes?
@@Mcsjjcollins that's unfortunately pretty dependent on how your game is setup, like with its camera. In the next stream I can show off how I do cutscenes in my current project, that would probably be a solid start. Basically I just change the camera's position to point somewhere else in the level, where something else is going on, and then pan back to where the player is
Thank you for the simple and easy video. Looking forward to the camera video! ❤️
I love everything in these tutorials. I haven't had a single issue that you didn't explain very well. I do however have one issue that I am trying to solve with no luck where when I move up or down I get lines that appear for a split second and it happens every couple of seconds but it only happens when I am moving up or down and never left or right. Its strange! Anyways, thank you for everything you do!
Edit: I used the math.floor on the players position to fix the white lines that shown up.
Amazing video! Understandable and quick to the point! Just a question: Do you know where I can learn about "map switching"? (Switching from game world map to an npc house map for example). Thanks!
I know how to use lua but I just started using Love2D this video was very helpful thank you so much!
This tutorial video is very friendly to beginners like me
Amazing video! Clear and concise!
5:10 commit message on the spec/ folder is interesting
I need help, I made my map but when I load it into love2d, the tiles are really small and I can’t enlarge them, could you help?
Nice video but how did you make your tile set?
for some reason I cant check off embed in map
And thanks, you are making really good stuff!
I struggled with this trying to use my own assets. I had to start over and rewatch the video. tried again with the provided sample assets and it worked. then I started over a third time with my own assets and it finally worked. not sure where I was going wrong at first but I was getting my whole map in the window zoomed out.
i have the same problem 😭, i used love.graphics.scale() but in further videos it started becoming not compatible with the camera
I'm confused. even though i followed your instructions it says i need a texture atlas. Any idea what happened?
I'm sure this is a little late, maybe this will help someone else, make sure you click the "Embed in map" option when you are creating the new tileset. If you forget to do that, you can click a tiny little icon under that section that says "Embed Tileset" when you hover over it. Don't forget to re-export!
@@alairock Thanks!
@@alairock thank you bro I faced the same problem :D
I was struggle with this porblem, it said that tileset.png doesnt exist in file download, how can i fix this problem, thanks
Hey... Idk if ur seeing this, but it says that a certain tile doesn't exist... Can u help?
Thanks for this video, learnt a lot, just one doubt, what change we have to do to the for loop if we are using groups in tiled.
I'm making my own level in lua files. I didn't know tiled could export to .lua. thank you, I'll try yhis out.
Hey,, when I add my tileset and press on the map screen, nothing gets added, I have no idea what is going on..
When I follow this tutorial, the map file says it needs to have the images, do I need to put every image that the map is using into my text editor?
Can someone explain me this error happening?
Error
libraries/sti/init.lua:99: STI does not support Tile Collections.
You need to create a Texture Atlas.
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'assert'
libraries/sti/init.lua:99: in function 'init'
libraries/sti/init.lua:48: in function 'sti'
main.lua:6: in function 'load'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
the sovle is when you adding the new tileset sure that choose (the embed in map )
The titleset link is broken
this series has been helping me make my game but one problem that i have is that my character stopped moving around when i added the background. only animations
I have made an animated tile in tiled, but it wont draw instead it will stay as a white tile, does sti doesn't have support for animated tiles?
for me it is showing file does not exist
sti doesn't work for the latest version of tiled
So when i added in my map into my code it did show up however it was really small which is not what i want. Do you know a way to either upscale the map or zoom the camera inwards?
If I was using a 16x16 tileset, how would I scale it to the default window size?
try using gameMap:draw(0, 0, 2, 2), where "2" is the scale of your map and you can change it freely
Hey, I followed the video with my own tilemap and its giving me an error, something along the lines of it not being able to find the picture.
you cant load the game images/tileset out of game folder (else you get an error) change it changing the image of tileset to the same but in game directory
What good explanation, thank you!
Hi do you have more tilesets like this one avaliable?
Hey, If you see this please reply because I'm stuck. I've been on and off using Love2D and following your tutorials for about a year maybe 2 now, because whenever I try to make a game I get completely stuck at this part. So let me ask: How do I control the Z-Axis of my textures, when my character walks behind a tree I want the tree to cover them, then when they walk in front of it, they should be above the tree. I've been stuck on this for way too long, please help!
Did u manage to figure this out? I’m also wondering how to do it.
@@SSJwalker unfortunately never figured it out, I gave up, I always get stuck here and never seem to find any results, its been like 3 years i've been trying to do this, I've asked all around the internet with nothing, please lmk if u ever find a way.
@@three_ make a new layer for only a specific set of tiles, like trees, in tiled.
make a new object layer for Y sort positions, and just put points at where you want the transition between drawing above or behind the player.
In love, you can extract the x and y position of everything in that object layer (I forget how to do this, but challacade does have a tutorial that explains it, the collision tutorial).
take every single point, and get the closest one to the player. you can do it using simple vector math, just subtract the point's position from the player's and then use the pythagorean theorem to get the distance.
after getting the closest point, check if it's above the players position. if it is, draw the layer FIRST, then the player LAST.
otherwise, do it the other way round.
if you have objects close to each other, as in 1-2 tiles above, then you might want to put them in separate layers.
tell me if you have issues, you'll probably get them because I've been up for 18 hours and dying inside help merweapt9e8yfdhsi
my character is on the default black map and not on my map
I am having a problem using the lua tiles. I am trying to draw a red circle on top of my tiles but using love.graphics.setColor() turns everything red, including my tiles. in my draw function I first draw gameMap:draw(), then set the color of my circle and the draw my circle. What am I doing wrong here?
Right after you draw the red circle, put in:
love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
This will change the color for everything else back to normal.
@@Challacade That worked like a charm. Thank you so much! If you don't mind, I have another quick question: I am trying to print a simple table to the console in VS code but I cant find my print anywhere. What am I doing wrong? what am I missing? Thank you in advance!
When I go export as, it exports it as a .tmx file, not a .lua file Pls help
After the file name you need to write .lua while your exporting
This Video is Just amazing. Thank you so much for helping us to learn how to Code
I have one question tho
I am using a tileset thats 8x8 because i Like smaller Textures but when i load it in Love its so small. Is there any way to scale it Up or cant i use it?
I'm a bit late but yes you can define a scale so everything you draw looks bigger on the screan. Its love.graphics.scale(sx,sy) you can find its documentation online
the tile set doesn't show when added.
it started moving once i took out the camera. just now.
Well this doesn't work unless it's outdated I think my version of Tiled is messed up
can we make moving grass in love2d? ( use tiled map)
Does anyone know how to use SVG tiles? When I import them they are converted to PNG
tilemaps are for pixel art.
you can make the entire level in a different editor which supports SVG, then download that as another SVG and use it in love, but otherwise, stick to having it convert to png.
how to scale the game Map?
But I keep getting this error
Error
libraries/sti/init.lua:893: attempt to index local 'self' (a nil value)
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
libraries/sti/init.lua:893: in function 'draw'
main.lua:11: in function 'draw'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:168: in function
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
How big of a map can you make with this tool?
the sky is the limit
and also your computer's temperature, that too
How do you know the tileset is 64x64 px?
In this case I knew because I created it, but to check, you could use an image editor (paint, GIMP) and see how big each tile is, or you could check the width/height of the tileset and divide the number of horizontal tiles
This was the best tutorial
There's no tiletset thing on the right hand side of my screen, I've re-installed it, anyone have this issue? I feel like I'm going insane
does it work on the mobile version?
i dont see the link for tiled
It's the third link, 'Tiled itch.io page'
im getting a librarie error
bruh i dont have admin
you are amazing
Yeah. Exporting maps to lua is so convenient it almost feels like cheating :)
How to build own not-tiled level editor?
I don't know what that process would be like. Could you explain what you're trying to do that Tiled wouldn't work?
@@Challacade For example polygons, that have no tiles and off-grid (or the snapping grid is just one pixel size).
@@darkfrei2 In Tiled, you can go to View -> Snapping to turn off grid snapping, so you can set things at the individual pixel level. Then for polygons, you can draw polygons on the object layer, there's a dedicated tool for that.
merci pour ce tuto :)
Pls do basic touch screen controls please I want to make a game in android and I'm just 12 years old wanna learn how to code (I sub
i got this error:
Error
libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: Could not open file ../New folder (3)/tileset_sheet.png. Does not exist.
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'newImageData'
libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: in function 'fix_transparent_color'
libraries/sti/init.lua:102: in function 'init'
libraries/sti/init.lua:49: in function 'sti'
main.lua:6: in function 'load'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
no idea why i am though
i decompiled moonshire lmao
Don't you just extract the exe and then u have all the code and assets?
@@wintesiak yes
i made with xml.
Love.Load... kinda sus
WHY DO UR VIDEOS NEVER HELP ME
I absolutlely love your video and I'm currently following it, but now I'm stuck here at the map making process. Whenever I try to open the game it just says:
Error
libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: Could not open file ../Assets/Sprout Lands - Sprites - Basic pack/Tilesets/Grass.png. Does not exist.
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'newImageData'
libraries/sti/utils.lua:195: in function 'fix_transparent_color'
libraries/sti/init.lua:102: in function 'init'
libraries/sti/init.lua:49: in function 'sti'
main.lua:6: in function 'load'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
I'd be greatly appreciate it if you can help me
what is solve
Error
libraries/sti/init.lua:99: STI does not support Tile Collections.
You need to create a Texture Atlas.
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'assert'
libraries/sti/init.lua:99: in function 'init'
libraries/sti/init.lua:48: in function 'sti'
main.lua:6: in function 'load'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall
same for me
pls help me, i did all good but wen i loaded my game at last it said this:
Error
libraries/sti/init.lua:94: STI does not support external Tilesets.
You need to embed all Tilesets.
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
[C]: in function 'assert'
libraries/sti/init.lua:94: in function 'init'
libraries/sti/init.lua:49: in function 'sti'
main.lua:6: in function 'load'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:136: in function
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
Same, did you figure it out?
@@Corredephdyes, i already fixed it a while ago. But I don't know how i did it anymore though... I'm sorry
@@Xx_DemiStar_xX I actually just figured out. A few reasons: 1. Make sure the tilesets you imported in to tiled are images from within the folder where you’re running your game from. 2. Make sure they are all embedded (botttom right of the tiled screen, second button from the left). 3. Make sure the tiled project contains no tilesets that are neither not embedded nor saved somewhere else other than the folder where your game is at. Save enough reexport
ldtk is also pretty good
hello please see this i am having trouble ive been learning you code and its super fun. ive completed all the code in this video but when i start up the game it says
Error
libraries/sti/init.lua:45: Syntax error: maps/testmap.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '
Hi, the '
@@ChallacadeI recreated a map and I am getting 1k errors in the maps code it is just a spam of 11s
Hi, thank you for the effort of offering such great tutorials. Because of them, I will try to make my first game using Löve2D.
I noticed that the use of tools and libraries is highly necessary since love2d covers the basic set of features only. I would like to know if you will gradually show these tools and libraries or if you think to make a video with a list of names and purpose.
I am still watching your videos, so what I would like to ask probably is already explained and that is: how, given a map, the collision is implemented? For example, as far as I imagine, if you load the map onto the game as-is, and try to walk where the tree is, the character would just walk over it, right?
I also would like to ask if the collisions are made with boxes or - for any reason - is it possible to define it more fine grained. For example, from the player animation tutorial, it was 4 x 4 different sprites, right? If the background of each sprite is transparent, is it possible to easily define that the border of the sprite is the collision perimeter?
Thank you.
Next video will show stuff on collisions. As far as matching collisions to a sprite, that work has to be done manually. In general, I tend to make a shape that's close enough, since it normally doesn't have to be pixel-perfect