TilePipe - tileset pipeline tool

Draw the tile center, sides and corners

and get a full blob tileset, to paint your map with.

Important note

Check out TilePipe2:  https://aleksandrbazhin.itch.io/tilepipe2

TilePipe is opensource https://github.com/aleksandrbazhin/TilePipe/tree/v.1

Use TilePipe to

• Fine-tune tile composition
• Randomize tiles
• Make highres or pixelart tiles
• Modify subtile positions in the autotile
• Generate full 255-tile sets, not only 47-tile ones, as well as any other smaller variants
• Export directly to Godot (other exporters planned)

Intro

With prepared tilesets you can paint maps in most game engines. To prepare those tilesets you have to copy-paste the same tile fragments, which is a lot of manual work. So here is TilePipe to automate the copying and help composing tiles from base parts.

Full tutorial is here: https://aleksandrbazhin.github.io/tilepipe_site/tutorial.html

And here is a quick video-intro

Basic usage

You have to draw the image with tile parts for TilePipe in your favorite graphical editor. There are some examples in the UI for every generation type, they are also available as a separate download.  There are 2 types of generating tiles

1. Quarters composition

TilePipe can combine parts you drew as quarters of a tile

For example, input for "quarters merge" generation from 4 different quarters is:

And the output tileset would be:

2. Overlay composition

The other type of generation is overlaying side and corner parts over the central one.

Overlaying gives more control over part merging, you can have more center or more sides. Here are the results from the same input, but different settings:

Randomization

To have more variety in your tiles, just draw several rows with variations:

each part will be selected from a random row, and the resulting tiles will differ:

Generate full 255-tile sets (new in 0.4.3)

You can produce something like this with the tool:

the input is included in the examples. To get the result like this, select "Overlay" type of generation and "255-symmetrical" preset. To get the correct result, put the "Merge amount" slider to the max, and "Overlay amount" to the min. You will also need to select 255-tile template. The generated tileset is ready to use. In Godot, for example, you will need to set the Tilemap tile size to the 3/4 of the Tileset tile size - if you've made a 64x64 tileset, then the Tilemap tile size would have to be 48x48.

Automatically generate collisions for your tiles (new in 0.4.7)

More info

Any feedback is greatly appreciated

Discord server: https://discord.gg/B4VBVYG

All the images and example tilesets are distributed under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed - you are free to use them.

Example maps made with the generated tilesets (sources are downloadable)

TilePipe is made with Godot https://godotengine.org/