TilePlus Painter
TilePlus Painter is a UiElements-based alternative Tilemap editor for Unity3D.
It has most features available in the Unity Tilemap Editor, and many that it doesn't have.
Introduction
Introduction to Painter
Overview
Tile+Painter (Painter) is a different sort of Tilemap painting and editing tool. Download the Til...
Nomenclature and Shortcuts
Nomenclature “T+P” or “Painter” refers to TilePlus Painter. TPT refers to TilePlus Toolkit. “Uni...
Painter Window
Mode Buttons Painter has three modes: PAINT, EDIT, and GRID. These correspond to the Paintbrush, ...
Basics
Action Buttons These toggles are all active in Paint mode (as shown on the preceding page). In Ed...
Limitations
Changing the transform or color of a tile requires the TileFlags to be set properly. If not, rota...
Clipboard
The Clipboard is in the upper-right corner of the Painter window and is only available in PAINT m...
About The Icon
(Yes this is repeated) Please be aware that creating an Icon with the F or I button, can cause le...
Option Buttons and Status Display
The buttons at the bottom of the window are used to refresh the window, toggle various options, a...
Tilemaps List
The list of Tilemaps in the left column updates automatically when you add or delete Tilemaps in ...
Settings
This displays settings for the Painter editor window, some of which are duplicated by the Option...
Paint Mode
Paint Mode Basics
The left column always displays a list of Tilemaps. Select which Tilemap that you want to operat...
Object Sources
The center column is a resizable split view. The top part displays all possible sources for paint...
Favorites
The Favorites List operates in conjunction with the Clipboard and the Pick tool. New items are al...
Palettes
If you want to omit a certain Palette from the list, change its GameObject’s layer to anything ot...
Painting Prefabs
Instantiated Prefabs are always parented to the selected Tilemap and set to the same layer. You c...
TileFabs, Bundles, and Chunk Snapping
Recall that a Bundle (TpTileBundle) asset is an archive of a single Tilemap and a TileFab (TpTile...
List of Objects from Selected Source
The right column is also a resizable split view. The top part of the split lists the Objects from...
Edit Mode
Editing in Painter
Grid Mode
Painter's Grid Mode
Painting Workflow
Step by Step ...
Painting
Getting Started Enable Painting objects by clicking on the Paintbrush icon in Paint mode. Select...
Modifiers
Custom Modifiers are “presets” and are applied with a shortcut key, defaulting to ALT+V (Win) or ...
How Different Tile Types are Handled
Painter expects to encounter one of two basic tile varieties: Tile and TileBase. There’s actually...
Chunk Snapping
This is a special mode that’s useful for painting TileFab “Chunks” aligned to a grid equivalent t...
Fun With Prefabs, TileFabs, and Bundles
Interesting ways to use this system which are non-obvious.
Prefabs
In Paint mode, the center column has an option checkbox called: Bundle Tiles View. This checkbox...
Decomposing a TileSet
Perhaps you have a TileSet that you bought on the Asset Store, Itch.io or somewhere like that. Of...
TileFabs as Snippets
You can use TileFabs to create 'snippets' of tiles which can be painted using Painter. In the Lay...
Appendix and FAQ
Appendix 1: About the Icon
Painter will try to create an icon for you when the Clipboard contains a multiple-selection Pick ...
Appendix 2: TpBundleTiles
TpBundleTile is a standard Unity tile with an added reference to a Bundle. When you paint this ti...
Appendix 3: Known Issues
Grid Snapping Grid Snapping may not work correctly if your Tilemap’s position isn’t (0,0,0). If y...
FAQ
Can I use the Unity Tilemap Editor and TilePlus Painter at the same time? In general, yes. It can...
Technical Notes
Favorites
Painter’s Favorites list is a visual representation of data stored in a Scriptable Singleton inst...
Agressive Mode
Aggressive Mode is controlled by a Settings panel toggle. It’s a workflow accelerator that you’ll...
Updating in Play
Painter usually is mostly dormant in Play mode. If you’re concerned about eliminating ALL effects...
Painter Exclusive Mode
The TilePlus Configuration dialog has a checkbox for “Painter Exclusive” and there’s a correspond...