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Porting to C++11 (with STL, Cocos2d-x) will take several weeks, please be patient.

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== Update Oct. 10th ==

v0.75 is released. This includes about 75% of the features and the most important ones are there. It has also been tested on Windows with Visual Studio.

I will begin adapting the ObjC model classes to use the C++ classes as the actual implementation. In that process I will port all the remaining little tidbits and once that's done this will be TK v1.0.

== Update Sep. 25th ==

Most "important" aspects are ported. So far, rendering of all map types and coord conversions seems okay. Still need to add object and image layers.

Getting rid of the "black line" artifacts needs more testing/research as the concepts used for SpriteKit/Cocos2d-objc don't seem to have an effect (could be a bug though).

== Update Sep. 19th ==

Rendering maps works. Ortho and Hex are implemented, Iso is to follow next.

== Update Sep. 16th ==

The reader and model classes are mostly complete, I decided to push back the optional data (terrain, tile anims, ...) in favor of getting something on the screen asap. This is the result: https://twitter.com/gaminghorror/status/644186463417069568

Aiming to launch an "early access" build for cocos2d-x in 2-3 weeks from now.

== Update Sep. 4th ==

Using pugixml to load TMX. Pugi makes the loader code a lot more straightforward to read and write, compared to NSXMLParser.

Map, tileset, tile layer loading and related C++ classes are done. I guess that's about half of it.

Normal map support is working for:

- Cocos2D: "collection of images" tilesets with normal and tileset images in the same texture atlas
- SpriteKit: "collection of images" tilesets without texture atlas (not recommended)

Due to a severe bug in SpriteKit (normal textures do not work if they are in a SKTextureAtlas) I put this task on hold. It's useful and working for Cocos2D users who create their own texture atlases. SpriteKit users will likely see a huge performance penalty due to the texture atlas bug.

See here for more info:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32200330/skspritenode-lighting-doesnt-work-with-textures-from-sktextureatlas

I'll be happy to work with Cocos2D devs to improve on the current lighting/normal support if there is any need.

It's done. Global and coord-specific (asynchronous) tile animations. Most of the API is in TKTileAnimation class:

http://tilemapkit.com/class-reference/html/Classes/TKTileAnimation.html

Coord-specific animations can be played, accessed or removed via TKTileLayer:
http://tilemapkit.com/class-reference/html/Classes/TKTileLayer.html#//api/name/playTileAnimation:atCoord:

TMX files can now be written with TKMapWriter.

The format is exactly the same as in Tiled, including order of elements/properties and formatting of values is preserved. That's important for source control users.

Task complete

Success: roughly 5-10 times faster now! :)