Level maps

Hi, I'm making platform game with multiple levels.

Because levels are a lot I was wondering if there is a fast way to build them.

Let me explain better, I know that when coding a game in Java the fastest way to build a level is to create a .txt file and filling it with "0","1","2","3",..."N"

Something like this:

  4                       4                        444
  4                      444                       444
     3                                    33                          
   1111        1111111111111111       111111111
111111111222211111111111111111112222221111111111111111111111111111111
[/code:1fhos2sv]

and then associate every number to a specific object
(in my example, "1" = ground, "2" = lava, "3" = enemy, "4" = scores/money).

This is very efficient when your game have a lot of levels.

[b]So here my question:[/b]
Is there in Construct 2 a way to build levels with this method (or anything similar)  so as you can build a lot of levels fast?

[i](Sorry my bad english but I'm italian)[/i]

Thanks to everyone in advance.

You can use tilemap to associate with number as coordinates.

In that case you see ground tile number is 28 then you should set in dictionary as 28 = 1

Then import your map text and do action to create tiles from dictionary keys, also picking coordinates according to length and newline in txt like:

newline number max 9 goes to last tile.Y coordinate.

Sorry to hijack, it's a related question though.

If creating "screen size" levels, would it be best to use the dictionary method or to simply create multiple layouts using the tile map?

I would say tile map is the best choice for that. I use it and is super useful to create my levels.

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

Thanks alot... I thought so, but just wanted to check