Tic-Tiled Map Converter

A simple python script for converting maps between Tiled and TIC-80.

Depends on xmltodict.

Current version: 0.02b

Usage

Converting

Call the script with the file names in the appropriate order, to convert from TIC-80 to Tiled or from Tiled to TIC-80.

ttmc.py foo.map derp.tmx

ttmc.py derp.tmx foo.map

The output file name and extension are optional. If a file name isn't provided, then it will be given the same name as the source file. If the extension is omitted, it will be inferred.

Tilesets

When converting to .tmx, a default tileset tiles.tsx will be attached to the resulting .tmx file. If you want to specify your own tileset, you can use the -ts parameter (cannot contain spaces):

-ts:<tileset_name>

Example:

ttmc.py -ts:my_tileset.tsx foo.map derp.tmx

The tileset file extension can be omitted.

If the tileset doesn't exist, a new one will be created, and it will be given a .png image with the same name (won't check if the image exists).

It doesn't matter if the -ts parameter comes before or after the filenames. This will work too:

ttmc.py foo.map derp.tmx -ts:my_tileset

Notes

• You can use Tile Layers in your maps. They are merged down when converting to TIC-80. All other layer types and groups are ignored.
• The Tile Layer Format must be set to CSV (you can set it in the map properties).
• Empty tiles are converted to 0 (from .map to .tmx).
• If you need a layer to be ignored during the conversion process, you can do it either by adding the layer to a group, or by adding a custom property (string or int) to the layer: tt_ignore = 1.