[Suggestion] Tiles as objects on tilemap

Hello, the tilemap is awesome, is it possible to treat each individual tile as an object and not the entire tilemap on the future?

The question is what extra would that accomplish?

Would be very useful, actually, I just don't think it can be done with the way tiles have been implemented. Some uses...

Destructible tiles like in Metroid

Pinning tiles to moving platforms & interactive objects

Making tiles transparent/invisible to reveal hidden paths

Well, now that I think of it you can just use a separate tilemap object with your tile(s) of choice. Not the easiest way to go about it but whatever..

Check out the TMX Importer plugin, which lets you do every one of those things:

scirra.com/forum/plugin-tmx-importer_topic49949.html

Yeah newt, I�m awate it�s no easy task, but it would be very useful to define individual behaviors and properties on each tile on a tileset or create a family of tile objects.

Why can't you use regular objects for that?

Also, you are aware you can have multiple tilemaps?

If you want to do something like a moving platform, just throw in a Sprite on top of the tilemap. I doubt we'd ever code tilemaps to do everything sprites can when you can have the dynamic parts as separate objects.

Hello, the tilemap is awesome, is it possible to treat each individual tile as an object and not the entire tilemap on the future?

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Maybe I am not understanding the use of Tilemaps correctly, then again it did just get released. However should we not be able to use it so that multiple layer can go over top of each other on the same Tilemap? For example I tried to place a tree with a transparent background on the Tilemap over grass but the background turned white, and removed the grass.

Equinox80 Do you have a .capx? I'm going to help you.

Link is here: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/73299017/capx/ORPG.capx

Thanks a lot for the help.

Equinox80 You're using 3rd party plugins, aren't you using official one? the new beta comes Tilemap plugin

My other map generator is currently disabled while I was testing the new beta Tilemap plugin. It's not doing anything.

Is it much more efficient (memory/speed wise) to use this rather than lots of individual sprites? I guess that sort of info will come with the manual entry in the stable release.

— Yes it does, I tested it on my iPod 4 with safari, a platform game with a lot of tiles with 2 tilemaps 1 for show and 1 for block collisions, no lag.