New Block Format

Overview

In order to migrate away from the previous way of handling tiles and make the format more universal, here is the proposed specifications of a new JSON format.

As part of giving the properties more universality, whenever something claims to be a direction table that means that the lua that represents it will be {0, 1, 0, 1} and the json would be [false, true, false, true] where each element, in order, corresponds to the north, east, south, and west face of a block.

It is very confusing for the bottom side of a block to act like a coin and for the top side to be solid so please try not to exploit these behaviors or else you'll make people mad.

Properties

• BaseImage string default: "" If not defined, will look for a graphic that corresponds to the filename of the tile. If this references a filename other than itself, it will look for that.
• OffsetX number default: 0 The x coordinate of the tile's graphic position in BaseImage.
• OffsetY number default: 0 The y coordinate of the tile's graphic position in BaseImage.

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• Solid direction table default: true If true, things will collide with this block's face. If a given face is marked as non-solid the player will be able to enter the block from that direction. Once inside the block, the player will be able to leave from any direction. Setting the left side to be non-solid and the right to be solid will allow the player to walk through it from left to right but will prevent him from re-entering from the right.
• Visible boolean default: true If false, this block will not be visible but will retain its other properties.
• Breakable direction table default: false If true, super mario and koopa shells will destroy this block on this face.
• Coin boolean default: false If true, will give the player a coin when touched.
• Portalable direction table default: true If false, the player will not be able to place portals on this block's face nor will this block's face be usable to host neighboring portals.
• Mirror direction table default: false If true, portals shot at a given face will reflect at the angle they are shot from.
• Grate direction table default: false If true, portals will be able to enter and leave through faces set as grates.
• Water boolean default: false If true, players inside this block will be swimming.
• Hurt direction table default: false If true, will hurt players that collide with the block from that direction.
• Foreground boolean default: false If true, this block will be in front of things.
• Bounce direction table default: false If true, the player will bounce from that/those direction(s).
• Kill direction table default: false If true, will outright destroy an unprotected player when they come in contact akin to that of the hurt block.

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• Triggerable boolean default: false If true, this block will be able to receive a signal from the animatedtiletrigger entity to begin animating.
• FrameDuration decimal (seconds/frame) default: 0.0 The length, in seconds, that this block should use its current graphic before advancing to its next frame.
• NextFrame string default: "" The name of the tile to change to. When this happens, this tile will no longer exist and an instance of the specified tile will replace it -- including all the properties.
• Switchable:boolean default: false If true, this block will turn into its next frame.
• Switchback: string default: "" The tile will turn into this when the switch is no longer in effect.
• Switchtype: string default: "" What makes this switch tick? "pswitch"? "onoffblock"? "exclamationswitch(es)"?
• NoMercy: boolean default: false If true, hurt/kill blocks will harm player without any bias (Example: A starman has no effect in say, extremely hot lava.)

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• Platform This property could be reduced to the solid property.
• Bridge This property could be remade with triggers.