How to Load and Render Tiled Maps in Your SDL2 Game

This repository contains sample code for my article on loading and rendering Tiled maps in SDL2.

This repository's only focus is on demonstrating how to load and render Tiled maps in SDL2. The rest of the code is a quick and dirty set-up for the Tiled level loading functionality to stand on and should not be used or regarded as good game design with SDL2.

Credit

The tileset I used in the example Tiled map was the result of Hyptosis's hard work at opengameart.org. Check out their website or their opengameart profile.

Pre-requisites

• A C++ compiler

• cmake

• SDL2, SDL2 Image, and TMXLite libraries installed

Building

Whatever you do, make sure that you run your built binary from the project root (where the res/ folder is), so that the executable can find the images and map.

$ git clone https://github.com/connorkuehl/sdl2-tiled-example.git

$ cd sdl2-tiled-example

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake ..

$ make

$ cd ..

$ ./build/sdl2_example