Two Critical bugs in tilemap, explained with videos. Urgent fix required.

[rudiHammad]

Hello,
I have found what I consider two important bugs and it seems related to Axmol and not Tiled.
The first one is that you can't add an external tiles (.tsx file) that isn't in the same path of the tilemap (.tmx file). In the video bellow you can see the following: First I build without errors my .tmx map in the path Content/_tests. From there I stop and add a tileset called forcesTieset.tsx located a path in Content/tiled, which is different from where my .tmx map is. And As you can see, axmol crashes.

2025-01-08.13-22-20.mp4

Now, if I take that same tileset and copy it in the same path of the tilemap, everything works. In the video bellow you can see the tile ser renamed to forcesTieset_samePath.tsx. No errors.

2025-01-08.13-26-21.mp4

This is a big problem because we should be able to work with tileset located in different directories, because they are shared by many different map.

The other bug I found (update: see edit note at the bottom), is that you can have in the same layer tiles from different tiles sets.
In the video bellow you can see how when I mix tiles from different tilesets, the images breaks.

2025-01-08.13-20-59.mp4

Please let me know what you thing about both as they currently stop my production.
@halx99 can you have a loot too and share you opinion?

Thank you.

p.s: I also asked that in Tiled's official forum to double check.

EDIT: about the second bug, in Tiled forum they answered that not mixing tiles from different tileset is the same layer is commonly known.
So it's not necessarily a big issue. I just left the issue in this post and added this edit in case someone comes across the same issue.
Here the link https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/external-tilset-set-bug-and-layer-breaking-when-mixing-tilesets/7196/2

[rh101]

@rudiHammad Please provide a minimal project that reproduces the issue (please do this for all future issues too).

So, the only bug from your post is the one regarding the location of the .tsx file relative to the .tmx. Have you traced it yourself to see if you're able to fix it, since you seem to be able to reproduce it easily?

[rudiHammad]

Hey @rh101 , sure. Here it is :
https://github.com/rudiHammad/tilemap-axmol-test/tree/main
I added the content and code, and in the readme file I explained how to reproduce the working version, and the error version.
I am still investigating, but haven't found a solution yet.

(In the first post we can disregard what I mentioned as the second bug since it's well know not to be able to mix different tilesets in the same layer, but I left in case someone comes across the same issue)

[rh101]

@rudiHammad If you trace it, you'll see that it's not the TSX file that is the problem, since it's being loaded correctly, but what is causing the crash is the PNG file, which is being loaded from Content/tilemaps rather than from its actual location, Content/tilesets.

I may have some time to look more into this later today.

[rh101]

PR #2316 should fix the issue for you.

[rudiHammad]

I'll be trying this in a minute. Thanks for improving axmol.