Jumper

Jumper is a pathfinding library designed for grid-based games. It aims to be fast and lightweight. It features a wide range of search algorithms, built within a clean interface with chaining features which makes it very friendly and easy to use.

Jumper is written in pure Lua. Thus, it is not framework-related and can be used in any project embedding Lua code.

Contents

• Installation
• Example of Use
• API & Docs
• Credits and Thanks
• License

Installation

The current repository can be retrieved locally on your computer via:

Bash

git clone git://github.com/Yonaba/Jumper.git

Download (latest)

• Development release: zip | tar.gz
• Stable release (1.8.1): zip | tar.gz
• All releases: tags

Example of Use

Here is a simple example explaining how to use Jumper:

-- Usage Example
-- First, set a collision map
local map = {
    {0,1,0,1,0},
    {0,1,0,1,0},
    {0,1,1,1,0},
    {0,0,0,0,0},
}
-- Value for walkable tiles
local walkable = 0

-- Library setup
local Grid = require ("jumper.grid") -- The grid class
local Pathfinder = require ("jumper.pathfinder") -- The pathfinder lass

-- Creates a grid object
local grid = Grid(map) 
-- Creates a pathfinder object using Jump Point Search
local myFinder = Pathfinder(grid, 'JPS', walkable) 

-- Define start and goal locations coordinates
local startx, starty = 1,1
local endx, endy = 5,1

-- Calculates the path, and its length
local path, length = myFinder:getPath(startx, starty, endx, endy)
if path then
  print(('Path found! Length: %.2f'):format(length))
    for node, count in path:iter() do
      print(('Step: %d - x: %d - y: %d'):format(count, node.x, node.y))
    end
end

--> Output:
--> Path found! Length: 8.83
--> Step: 1 - x: 1 - y: 1
--> Step: 2 - x: 1 - y: 3
--> Step: 3 - x: 2 - y: 4
--> Step: 4 - x: 4 - y: 4
--> Step: 5 - x: 5 - y: 3
--> Step: 6 - x: 5 - y: 1

Find some other examples of use for Jumper, made with various Lua-based frameworks and game engines in this separated repository: Jumper-Examples

API & Docs

Find a complete documentation and API description online: Jumper Documentation

Credits and Thanks

• Daniel Harabor, Alban Grastien : for their work on Jump Point Search.
  
• XueXiao Xu, Nathan Witmer: for their JavaScript port
  
• Steve Donovan: for the awesome documentation generator tool LDoc.
• Srdjan Markovic, who reported various bugs and feedbacks.

License

This work is under MIT-LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Roland Yonaba.

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