Guidelines

You can build a map for TMW using Tiled

• Suggested map size: usually maps should be 200x200 at max
• Tile size: 32x32
• Map border: you have to leave an empty border around the map of at least 30 tiles
• Walls/players proportions: a normal door for a player is 2 tiles in height
• Indoor/Outdoor proportions: it is not required that inside view of buildings has to fit the size in outside view
• Path reference: please use tmw folder structure to keep references to tilesets working
• Transparent color: tilesets use alpha so no need to set a transparent color
• Layers: each map uses 4 layers: ground, objects, over and collision (names are only suggested)
  • Ground: used for everything below items and beings.
  • Objects: this layer is drawn simultaneously with items and beings, where tiles above a being are drawn below the being and tiles below the being are drawn above. Hence this layer is suitable for adding static objects to a map like plants or statues.
  • Over: usually used for walls or high objects. Each tile in this layer is always above items and beings.
  • Collision: this is a special layer for which you have to use the collision tileset. Use the 'X' tile where you want a tile to be unwalkable. Be careful that even if a tile is not reachable, but it's walkable, the server can spawn monsters there, so you won't be able to reach them, or you can cause weird situations. For example fill a wall with 'X' tiles, not only the borders, or you could have monsters spawning inside the wall.
• TMW doesn't support layer data compression, so disable it in Tiled: Edit -> Preferences -> Saving -> Compress layer data should not be checked

In a good style of mapping, please always use the lowest layer as possible (this interests also perfomances).

Error and suggestions

If you encounter a map error, big or small, please add it to this list so that eventually a mapper can pick it up and include it the next time the map gets updated. Also feel free to add suggestions.

The desert area below town (1-1)

• Some Walls have to be retested to the west against the left hill. The character has sometimes a strange behaviour while walking along that wall, and that doesn't seem to be linked with the map. Or am I wrong?

This has most probably got something to do with that the edge of the world comes in sight, all sprites have this "strange behaviour". --Modanung

Yes, handling of map border case needs to be fixed. --Bjørn 14:58, 18 Jul 2005 (CEST)

Tulimshar (3-1)

• The large empty area at 44,34 in new_3-1 is reserved for the city's "palace", but we need a tile artist to start drawing the necessary tiles for this.

The Underground Palace (5-1)

• The wall at 59,89 hides the Players head ;) Stand on 59,90

I looked into the tmx file and it is marked unpassable, so it must be the drawing.

• (Palace Level 2) Stand on 45,31 - Tile incorrectly not covering the player

The Eastern Desert (?) (7-1)

• Contains 2 cave entrances that lead to yet to determine caves.
• Exit to the south east determined?

No known errors.

Casino (?) (8-1)

• Bar table is lower layer, characters can walk on it

Woodland (?) (9-1)

An illustration

• Some tiles are walkable although they shouldn't be. (Or it is a client layer specific thing) 87,75 - 90,75
• There is an error in the trunk of this tree:
• Rock in "top level"(?) at coords [81,67].
• Top level object @ [74, 58]
• Player's name is partially invisible when standing @ [62, 89]
• Walkable cliffs @ [76, 80] and [81, 80]
• Walkable tree @ [74, 42] - [75, 43]
• Walkable tree edges (e.g. @ [46, 64])

• A flower was located @ [51, 104], behind a fence, where nobody can hit it. That area should perhaps be marked as unwalkable.
• Walkable cave entrance @ [58, 92], this might not be a problem, if the players enters the cave by walking into it. Now it looks bad.

Thank you for the detailed bug description. I fixed all these bugs and mailed the new version to the developer mailing list. You can expect it in the next release or as a hotfix. --Crush 07:45, 7 January 2006 (CET)