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The left column still displays a list of Tilemaps. When you select a Tilemap in the left column then the center column will display the tiles in that map along with thumbnail images of tile sprites and their positions, followed optionally by the tile’s Instan...

For TPT tiles you’ll see Selection Inspector shown in various images in these docs. Tile tiles (normal Unity Tiles) are assets so you can only open an Inspector on the asset. Listing all the positions for a Tile might make the list thousands of items long, whi...

This pane is used to organize Grid Selections. When this panel is open you can capture Grid Selections with the UTE or from within Painter. What you see in the list are BoundsInts from Grid Selections. The BoundsInt is all that’s needed to create a new Grid S...

Getting Started Enable Painting objects by clicking on the Paintbrush icon in Paint mode. Select a Tilemap to paint on in the left column. Select a source of Objects from the center column: a Palette, the Favorites List, a TileFab, or a Bundle. Select a speci...

Custom Modifiers are “presets” and are applied with a shortcut key, defaulting to ALT+V (Win) or Option-V (Mac). This works in conjunction with an Editor window cleverly named “Painter Modifiers,” available from the Tools/TilePlus menu or by clicking on the P....

Painter expects to encounter one of two basic tile varieties: Tile and TileBase. There’s actually a big difference between the two. A Tile has a sprite, a transform, and a Color. All tiles derived (subclassed) from Tile have these characteristics. However, a T...

This is a special mode that’s useful for painting TileFab “Chunks” aligned to a grid equivalent to the size of the Chunk. Chunks are a specific sort of TileFab that’s always square and of even dimensions (4x4, 8x8 … 64x64 etc.). It’s activated by the Chunk Sna...

In Paint mode, the center column has an option checkbox called: Bundle Tiles View. This checkbox only appears if the “Show Tile Bundles” checkbox is checked. When unchecked, the Bundle is painted as a single item as usual. When Bundle Tiles View is checked, ...

Perhaps you have a TileSet that you bought on the Asset Store, Itch.io or somewhere like that. Often you need to paint more than one tile from such a set to create a complete visual object in the scene: a building might comprise a dozen or more tiles or someth...

Painter will try to create an icon for you when the Clipboard contains a multiple-selection Pick and you choose to create a Bundle or add the Pick to Favorites. A customized sprite packer is used to create a representative Icon (aka sprite) for the TpBundleTil...

TpBundleTile is a standard Unity tile with an added reference to a Bundle. When you paint this tile, the tile loads the bundle and deletes itself. It’s essentially a proxy. You can add this type of tile to a normal Unity Palette or to Painter’s Favorites List....

Can I use the Unity Tilemap Editor and TilePlus Painter at the same time? In general, yes. It can be confusing to use them both at the same time though. The selection made in either window can be lost when you use the alternate window. Simply: when you switch...

Grid Snapping Grid Snapping may not work correctly if your Tilemap’s position isn’t (0,0,0). If you offset that by integers, e.g., (1,2,0) the system can usually compensate. However, if you use fractional offsets from zero the forced use of integer math may ro...

Painter’s Favorites list is a visual representation of data stored in a Scriptable Singleton instance. When the instance is saved, the data is serialized to the file system. The serialization is performed like any other Unity serialization: references to scene...

Aggressive Mode is controlled by a Settings panel toggle. It’s a workflow accelerator that you’ll either love or hate. What does it do? Painter monitors what’s currently selected. In Unity Editor-land, the selection is what you see in an inspector. Usually, i...

Painter usually is mostly dormant in Play mode. If you’re concerned about eliminating ALL effects that Painter may have in Play mode, just close the Painter window. When the window is open there are internal events that aren’t intercepted during Play. If you w...

The TilePlus Configuration dialog has a checkbox for “Painter Exclusive” and there’s a corresponding option button at the bottom of the Painter window. Side note: The convention in the TilePlus system is that a configuration item is in the TilePlus configurati...

Introduction Look at any Unity or Reddit forum and you'll see endless posting about how to go about saving and restoring data. TilePlus Toolkit has a built-in, efficient, and simple to use save/restore scheme designed specifically for TilePlus tiles: TpPersist...

You can use TileFabs to create 'snippets' of tiles which can be painted using Painter. In the Layout demo's DesignTileFabs folder you can see a few prebuilt buildings that can be dropped into any tilemap with matching Tilemap names. These were created directl...

The Tools/TilePlus/System Info menu command opens UIElements inspector that has a multitude of instrumented data from various parts of the TilePlus system. Please note that this window refreshes constantly, even in Play mode, but only when the window is visisb...