---
title: "Phaser.Tilemaps.Parsers.Tiled"
docs: "Phaser v4.0.0"
url: https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/namespace/tilemaps-parsers-tiled
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# Phaser.Tilemaps.Parsers.Tiled

Scope: 
static
> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/index.js#L7](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/index.js#L7)  


## Static functions

### AssignTileProperties

#### \<static> AssignTileProperties(mapData)


**Description:**

Iterates over all tiles in every layer of the given MapData and synchronizes each tile with its parent tileset. For each valid tile, this function ensures the tile's dimensions match those defined by its tileset (which is important for maps that use multiple tilesets with different tile sizes), and then merges any custom properties defined for that tile type in the tileset onto the tile instance. This is called as part of the Tiled map parsing pipeline to ensure that per-tile-type metadata exported from the Tiled editor is available on the individual tile objects at runtime.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| mapData | [Phaser.Tilemaps.MapData](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/class/tilemaps-mapdata.md) | No | The Map Data object. |


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/AssignTileProperties.js#L9](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/AssignTileProperties.js#L9)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### Base64Decode

#### \<static> Base64Decode(data)


**Description:**

Decodes a base-64 encoded string, as used by Tiled when exporting tilemap layer data with base-64 encoding. The binary data is interpreted as a sequence of little-endian unsigned 32-bit integers, each representing a tile GID (Global Tile ID) in the layer.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| data | object | No | The base-64 encoded string to decode. |


**Returns:** array - Array of unsigned 32-bit integers representing the decoded tile GIDs.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/Base64Decode.js#L7](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/Base64Decode.js#L7)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### BuildTilesetIndex

#### \<static> BuildTilesetIndex(mapData)


**Description:**

Builds a lookup index that maps each global tile ID (GID) to its pixel position within its tileset image and the index of that tileset within the map data. The returned array is sparse, keyed by GID, where each entry is a three-element array of the form `[x, y, tilesetIndex]`. The x and y values are the pixel coordinates of the top-left corner of the tile within its tileset image, accounting for tile margin and spacing. Any image collections in the map data are also converted into Tileset objects and added to `mapData.tilesets` before the index is built.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| mapData | [Phaser.Tilemaps.MapData](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/class/tilemaps-mapdata.md) \| [Phaser.Tilemaps.Tilemap](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/class/tilemaps-tilemap.md) | No | The Map Data object. |


**Returns:** array - A sparse array keyed by global tile ID (GID), where each entry is `[x, y, tilesetIndex]`.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/BuildTilesetIndex.js#L9](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/BuildTilesetIndex.js#L9)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### CreateGroupLayer

#### \<static> CreateGroupLayer(json, [group], [parentState])


**Description:**

Parses a Tiled group layer and builds an inherited state object for use when processing its child layers. Group layers in Tiled can nest other layers and accumulate properties such as name prefix, opacity, visibility, and positional offset. This function combines the given group's own properties with those of its parent state to produce a new state that child layers will inherit.

If no group is provided, a default root state is returned with neutral values (full opacity, visible, zero offset), suitable for use at the top level of the layer hierarchy.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| json | object | No | The Tiled JSON object. |
| group | object | Yes | The current group layer from the Tiled JSON file. |
| parentState | object | Yes | The inherited state of the parent group, as returned by a previous call to this function. Required when `group` is provided. |


**Returns:** object - A group state object containing the accumulated name prefix, opacity, visibility, and x/y position offsets for use when parsing child layers.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/CreateGroupLayer.js#L9](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/CreateGroupLayer.js#L9)  
Since: 3.21.0


---

### ParseGID

#### \<static> ParseGID(gid)


**Description:**

Parses a Tiled Global Tile ID (GID), extracting the tile index and any flip flags encoded in the high bits of the value. In the Tiled TMX format, the top three bits of a GID are used to indicate horizontal flip, vertical flip, and anti-diagonal flip (i.e. 90-degree rotation).

This function strips those flag bits from the GID to recover the raw tile index, then interprets all eight possible combinations of the three flags and converts them into a rotation value (in radians) and a boolean `flipped` state that Phaser can apply directly to a tile when rendering.

See the Tiled documentation on tile flipping for the full flag specification: [http://docs.mapeditor.org/en/latest/reference/tmx-map-format/](http://docs.mapeditor.org/en/latest/reference/tmx-map-format/)

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| gid | number | No | A Tiled GID, potentially with flip flags encoded in the high bits. |


**Returns:** [Phaser.Types.Tilemaps.GIDData](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/typedef/types-tilemaps.md#GIDData) - A GIDData object containing the raw tile index, the three individual flip flags, and the derived rotation (in radians) and flipped state.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseGID.js#L11](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseGID.js#L11)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseImageLayers

#### \<static> ParseImageLayers(json)


**Description:**

Parses a Tiled JSON object and extracts all image layers, including those nested inside group layers. Each image layer is returned as a plain object with its name, image source, computed position (accounting for group and layer offsets), combined opacity, visibility, and custom properties inherited from the Tiled layer definition.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| json | object | No | The Tiled JSON object. |


**Returns:** array - An array of objects, one per image layer, each containing `name`, `image`, `x`, `y`, `alpha`, `visible`, and `properties` fields.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseImageLayers.js#L10](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseImageLayers.js#L10)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseJSONTiled

#### \<static> ParseJSONTiled(name, source, insertNull)


**Description:**

Parses a Tiled JSON object into a new MapData object. The source JSON is deep copied before processing. This function handles orthogonal, isometric, staggered, and hexagonal map orientations. For hexagonal maps it also calculates the pixel dimensions based on the hex side length and stagger axis. It parses all tile layers, image layers, object layers, and tilesets found in the JSON, builds the tileset index, and assigns custom tile properties before returning the fully populated MapData instance.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| name | string | No | The name of the tilemap, used to set the name on the MapData. |
| source | object | No | The original Tiled JSON object. This is deep copied by this function. |
| insertNull | boolean | No | Controls how empty tiles, tiles with an index of -1, in the map data are handled. If `true`, empty locations will get a value of `null`. If `false`, empty location will get a Tile object with an index of -1. If you have a large sparsely populated map and the tile data doesn't need to change then setting this value to `true` will help with memory consumption. However if your map is small or you need to update the tiles dynamically, then leave the default value set. |


**Returns:** [Phaser.Tilemaps.MapData](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/class/tilemaps-mapdata.md) - The created MapData object, or `null` if the data can't be parsed.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseJSONTiled.js#L19](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseJSONTiled.js#L19)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseObject

#### \<static> ParseObject(tiledObject, [offsetX], [offsetY])


**Description:**

Convert a Tiled object to an internal parsed object normalising and copying properties over, while applying optional x and y offsets. The parsed object will always have the properties `id`, `name`, `type`, `rotation`, `properties`, `visible`, `x`, `y`, `width` and `height`. Other properties will be added according to the object type (such as text, polyline, gid etc.)

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | default | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ------- | ----------- |
| tiledObject | object | No |  | The raw Tiled object data, as exported from the Tiled map editor. |
| offsetX | number | Yes | 0 | Optional additional offset to apply to the object's x property. Defaults to 0. |
| offsetY | number | Yes | 0 | Optional additional offset to apply to the object's y property. Defaults to 0. |


**Returns:** object - The parsed object containing properties read from the Tiled object according to its type with x and y values updated according to the given offsets.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseObject.js#L14](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseObject.js#L14)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseObjectLayers

#### \<static> ParseObjectLayers(json)


**Description:**

Parses all object layers from a Tiled JSON tilemap into an array of `ObjectLayer` objects.

Iterates through every layer in the map, including layers nested inside Tiled group layers, and converts each `objectgroup` type layer into an `ObjectLayer` instance. Opacity and visibility values are inherited from parent group layers and multiplied down to their children. Non-object layers (tile layers, image layers, etc.) and non-objectgroup group members are skipped. The resulting array contains one entry per object layer found at any depth of nesting.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| json | object | No | The Tiled JSON object. |


**Returns:** array - An array of all object layers in the tilemap as `ObjectLayer`s.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseObjectLayers.js#L12](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseObjectLayers.js#L12)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseTileLayers

#### \<static> ParseTileLayers(json, insertNull)


**Description:**

Parses all tile layers from a Tiled JSON object and returns them as an array of LayerData objects. Each tile layer in the JSON becomes one LayerData instance populated with Tile objects.

The function walks the full layer hierarchy, descending into Tiled group layers so that nested tile layers are included. Group transform properties (offset, opacity, visibility) are accumulated and applied to every child layer. Compressed tile data is not supported and any compressed layer will be skipped with a console warning. Layers encoded as uncompressed Base64 are decoded automatically before processing.

Both finite and infinite (chunked) Tiled maps are handled. For hexagonal maps the stagger axis, stagger index, and hex side length are read from the JSON and stored on each LayerData, and the pixel dimensions of the layer are calculated accordingly.

Each tile's flip flags and rotation are derived from the GID bit-packing that Tiled uses, so FlippedHorizontal, FlippedVertical, and FlippedAntiDiagonal are translated into the tile's `flipX` and `rotation` properties.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| json | object | No | The Tiled JSON object. |
| insertNull | boolean | No | Controls how empty tiles, tiles with an index of -1, in the map data are handled (see {@link Phaser.Tilemaps.Parsers.Tiled.ParseJSONTiled}). |


**Returns:** Array.\<[Phaser.Tilemaps.LayerData](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/4.0.0/class/tilemaps-layerdata.md)> - - An array of LayerData objects, one for each entry in

json.layers with the type 'tilelayer'.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseTileLayers.js#L16](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseTileLayers.js#L16)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseTilesets

#### \<static> ParseTilesets(json)


**Description:**

Parses the tilesets and image collections from a Tiled JSON map, converting them into Phaser `Tileset` and `ImageCollection` instances. Handles both Tiled 1.x and Tiled 2.x formats, including per-tile properties, object groups, animation data, Wang sets, and typed tiles. External tilesets (those with a `source` property) are not supported and will produce a warning.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| json | object | No | The Tiled JSON data. |


**Returns:** object - An object containing the tileset and image collection data.


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseTilesets.js#L12](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseTilesets.js#L12)  
Since: 3.0.0


---

### ParseWangsets

#### \<static> ParseWangsets(wangsets, datas)


**Description:**

Parses out the Wangset information from Tiled 1.1.5+ map data, if present.

Since a given tile can be in more than one wangset, the resulting properties are nested. `tile.data.wangid[someWangsetName]` will return the array-based wang id in this implementation.

Note that we're not guaranteed that there will be any 'normal' tiles if the only things in the tileset are wangtile definitions, so this has to be parsed separately.

See [https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/latest/manual/using-wang-tiles/](https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/latest/manual/using-wang-tiles/) for more information.

**Parameters:**
| name | type | optional | description |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| wangsets | Array.\<object> | No | The array of wangset objects (parsed from JSON) |
| datas | object | No | The object into which wangset data from Tiled is stored, keyed by tile ID. |


> Source: [src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseWangsets.js#L7](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0/src/tilemaps/parsers/tiled/ParseWangsets.js#L7)  
Since: 3.53.0


---

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