Tiled provides a built-in “Automapping Rules Tileset” to handle certain special cases, which can be added to your rule map through Map > Add Automapping Rules Tileset.

Tiled maps or tilesets with embedded image data can currently only be created using the JavaScript API, or in custom tools based on libtiled (Qt/C++) or tmxlib (Python).

Tiled supports flipping and rotating tiles. When using terrains, tiles can be automatically flipped and/or rotated to create variations that would otherwise not be available in a tileset.

A Tiled map supports various sorts of content, and this content is organized into various different layers. The most common layers are the Tile Layer and the Object Layer.

In some cases they can replace the use of tile layers entirely, as demonstrated by the “Sticker Knight” example shipping with Tiled. All objects can have custom properties, which can also be used to …

There are many libraries available for reading and/or writing Tiled maps (either stored in the TMX Map Format or the JSON Map Format) as well as many development frameworks that include support for …

Tile Layers are what makes Tiled a tile map editor. Although not as flexible as Object Layers, they provide efficient data storage and good rendering performance as well as efficient content creation.

Since Tiled 1.0, the default and recommended approach is to save your tilesets to their own file. This simplifies your workflow since it makes sure any meta-information is shared between all maps using …

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One of the major strengths of Tiled is that it allows setting custom properties on all of its basic data structures. This way it is possible to include many forms of custom information, which can later be …