--- title: "Tilemaps: API" package: "@phaser-ae/tiles-2d" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "Tile layers for 2D worlds, drawn from a tileset and culled to the camera, with parallax, repeat and animated tiles, and collision merged into static bodies with slopes and one-ways." url: https://phaser.io/packs/tiles-2d/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Tilemaps: API `@phaser-ae/tiles-2d` — Tilemaps: tile layers from a tileset, culled to the camera, with parallax, repeat and animated tiles; collision merged into static bodies, slopes and one-ways. ## The pack ### `tiles2d` ```ts function tiles2d(): Pack<{ tiles: Tiles2dApi }> ``` Tilemaps: culled layers as aggregates, collision as merged static bodies. Needs `physics-2d` composed for shaped bodies and for one-ways that can be passed through; without it the collision spawns plain tagged boxes, a slope tile becomes a full tile box and a one-way a solid 4-unit strip, and a console warning says so once for each of the two kinds a map uses. ## Helpers ### `TILE` ```ts const TILE: { readonly slopeNE: 2; readonly slopeSE: 24; readonly slopeNW: 13; readonly slopeSW: 35; readonly oneWayUp: 12; readonly oneWayDown: 23; readonly oneWayRight: 34; readonly oneWayLeft: 45; } ``` The slope and one-way indices by name, so a hand-built map need not carry magic numbers. ## Types ### `CollisionSpec` ```ts interface CollisionSpec ``` The collision grid: what becomes static bodies. - `data: number[][]` — rows × cols: 0 open, 1 solid, other values look up `defs` (unknown = solid). - `defs?: Record` — Per index: a slope or one-way line. Default `game.tiles.defaultDefs`, the built-in 48-entry table, indices and all. - `tags?: string[]` — Tags on the bodies, for collision rules. Default ['wall']. ### `LevelData` ```ts interface LevelData ``` A whole level, as a tile editor exports it. - `sprites?: LevelSpawnData[]` — The things to place. - `layer: LevelLayerData[]` — The tile layers, one of which may be named `'collision'`. ### `LevelLayerData` ```ts interface LevelLayerData ``` ONE LAYER OF A LEVEL FILE, as a tile editor exports it. The layer NAMED `'collision'` is the collision grid; every other layer is drawn. - `name: string` — The layer's name. `'collision'` makes it the collision grid rather than a drawn layer. - `tilesize: number` — Tile size in world units. - `data: number[][]` — rows × cols of tile indices. - `firstFrame?: number` — The atlas frame index tile 1 maps to. Default 0. - `repeat?: boolean` — Tile it forever in both directions — a looping backdrop. Default false. - `distance?: number` — Parallax divisor: 1 locks to the world, 2 scrolls at half speed. Default 1. - `foreground?: boolean` — Draw it in FRONT of the objects rather than behind. Default false. - `layer?: string` — The world layer to draw into. Default `'world'`, or `'front'` when `foreground` — name it yourself if your world's layers are named differently. ### `LevelSpawnData` ```ts interface LevelSpawnData ``` One thing to place when the level loads. - `type: string` — What it is. A NAME, not a class — the game decides what each one means. - `x: number` — World x. - `y: number` — World y. - `settings?: Record` — Anything else the editor wrote for it. ### `TileAnim` ```ts interface TileAnim ``` An animated tile: the map's one clock steps through `seq`. - `time: number` — Seconds per frame. - `seq: number[]` — Tile indices (1-based, as in `data`) to cycle through. ### `TileDef` ```ts type TileDef = readonly [number, number, number, number, boolean] ``` A line across a tile in tile-local 0..1: `[x1, y1, x2, y2, solid]`. `solid` fills the side to the RIGHT of the directed line; `false` makes a one-way edge (passable from its open side). ### `TileLayer` ```ts interface TileLayer ``` A live drawn layer. - `name: LayerName` — The world layer it sits in, LIVE. Moving a layer between world layers is how a map draws IN FRONT of the sprites. A `foreground` flag could only ever answer "before or after"; a world layer answers "where in the whole stack", which is the question every object in the scene is already answering, so nothing here is special-cased for tiles. - `readonly id: string` — The layer's OWN name — a level file's `'ground'`, or the world layer's name when the spec did not give one. It is how a layer is found again: several layers draw into one world layer, so `name` cannot tell them apart. - `readonly handle: Handle` — The one roster object that draws it. - `readonly cols: number` — Columns. - `readonly rows: number` — Rows. - `get(c: number, r: number): number` — The tile index at (c, r); 0 outside the layer. - `set(c: number, r: number, v: number): void` — Set the tile index at (c, r); out of range is ignored. Nothing rebuilds. - `firstFrame: number` — The atlas frame tile 1 maps to, LIVE. A level file carries tile INDICES; which atlas frames those are is a runtime fact the file cannot know, so pointing a loaded layer at a tileset is the normal last step of loading one. Changing it is also how a level swaps its whole palette in one write. - `distance: number` — Parallax divisor, live. - `repeat: boolean` — Repeat forever in both axes, live. - `animations: Record` — The animations, keyed by tile INDEX — live, so a sequence can be retuned or added while the map runs. The animation belongs to the index rather than to any tile, which is why a hundred water tiles shimmer in step and cost one clock and one lookup between them. A tile that must be out of phase with its neighbours is not a tile — it is an object. - `visible: boolean` — Drawn at all, live. - `readonly count: number` — Non-empty tiles. - `readonly drawn: number` — Tiles emitted last frame. ### `TileLayerSpec` ```ts interface TileLayerSpec ``` One drawn layer of a map. - `layer: LayerName` — The world layer this sits in. - `id?: string` — This layer's own name, for finding it again with `map.layer(id)`. Default: the world layer's name. - `data: number[][]` — rows × cols of tile indices: 0 is empty, N draws `firstFrame + N - 1`. - `firstFrame: number` — The atlas frame of tile 1 (what `addStrip`/`addGrid`/`loadImage` returned). - `distance?: number` — Parallax: the layer scrolls at `camera / distance`. 2 = half speed, reads as far away. Default 1. - `repeat?: boolean` — Tile the layer in both axes forever. Default false. - `tint?: string` — A CSS hex colour (`#rrggbb` or `#rrggbbaa`) multiplied into every tile. Default `#ffffff`. - `visible?: boolean` — Drawn at all. Default true. - `animations?: Record` — Animated tiles, keyed by tile index: one clock on the map. ### `TileMap` ```ts interface TileMap ``` A live map: layers, collision and the bodies it became. - `readonly tile: number` — Tile size, world units. - `readonly x: number` — World x of the top-left. - `readonly y: number` — World y of the top-left. - `readonly cols: number` — Columns. - `readonly rows: number` — Rows. - `readonly layers: ReadonlyArray` — The drawn layers, in spec order. - `layer(name: string): TileLayer` — A layer by its own `id` — a level file's `'ground'` — falling back to the world layer's name. Throws `tiles: no layer ""` when there is none. - `cell(x: number, y: number): { c: number; r: number }` — World point → tile column/row (may be outside the map). - `solid(c: number, r: number): boolean` — Is the collision tile at (c, r) anything but open? What `grid-move` asks. False outside the map or with no collision. - `collisionAt(c: number, r: number): number` — The raw collision value at (c, r); 0 outside the map or with no collision. - `setCollision(c: number, r: number, v: number): void` — Change a collision tile: every body of the map rebuilds. Out of range, no collision, or an unchanged value is ignored. - `readonly bodies: number` — Static bodies the collision became. - `bounds(): { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — The map's rect in world units — what `rig.bounds()` takes so the camera never shows past its edge. - `kill(): void` — Kill the layers and bodies and drop the map from `maps`. Also done when the scene exits. ### `TileMapSpec` ```ts interface TileMapSpec ``` What `tiles.map()` takes. - `id?: string` — Prefix for the spawned objects' ids. Default `'tiles'`. - `tile: number` — Tile size in world units (square). - `x?: number` — World x of the map's top-left. Default 0. - `y?: number` — World y of the map's top-left. Default 0. - `layers: TileLayerSpec[]` — The drawn layers; all must be the same rows × cols. - `collision?: CollisionSpec` — The collision grid, same rows × cols as the layers. Optional. ### `Tiles2dApi` ```ts interface Tiles2dApi ``` `game.tiles`. - `map(spec: TileMapSpec): TileMap` — Build a map. Throws when no layer or collision gives rows and columns, or when a layer's or the collision's size differs from the map's. Scene-scoped. - `load(data: LevelData, opts?: { id?: string; x?: number; y?: number }): { map: TileMap; spawns: ReadonlyArray }` — Build a map from a LEVEL FILE — the shape a tile editor exports. The layer named `'collision'` becomes the collision grid and the rest are drawn, in the order given, with their own parallax and repeat. It returns the SPAWN LIST rather than placing anything. A level file names no class to construct: a level file that can construct arbitrary code is a level file you cannot safely load from anywhere. 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