LOVE2D (Lua)

The Lua exporter writes a single .lua file that returns a table. The shape matches Tiled's built-in Lua plugin, so loaders like STI (Simple Tiled Implementation) read it without changes.

What's covered

• Map metadata (width, height, tile size, orientation).
• Tilesets, including per-tile properties and animations.
• All four layer types: tile, object, image, group.
• Custom properties as nested Lua tables.
• Wang sets.

Format

The file starts with return { and ends with }. Indented with two spaces.

return {
  version = "1.10",
  orientation = "orthogonal",
  width = 64,
  height = 64,
  tilewidth = 16,
  tileheight = 16,
  tilesets = { ... },
  layers = { ... },
}

What gets lost

• Variable-size tiles. The Lua plugin convention doesn't have a place for them.
• Infinite maps. The exporter outputs a flat tile array, not chunks.

Output

map.lua   (Lua source returning a table)