Master the GODOT TileMap tool in 15 Minutes!

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Godot game engine has an internal tool called TileMap which allows for the creation of complex and beautiful game maps. Unfortunately the TipeMap tool lacks recent docs and tutorials. I am hoping this video can help close that gap and teach users about the godot TileMap tool.

[@GProgress]

Great video! And are you kidding me? I found your video as I am currently in Godot with this exact tilemap asset searching KZbin on how to work with tilemaps. What a strange coincidence!

[@danielprince223]

One thing to note - you don't need to set the Z-Index of the tilemap. The scene tree will draw nodes at the bottom on top of nodes before it. All you need to do is shift your tilemap node above the player. Good stuff tho!

[@abdalrahman-tr4md]

its better to use the z-idex

[@lunyxappocalypse7071]

Depends on your priorities with the node structure.

[@jacksontriffon5064]

epilepsy warning

[@bennyblubman9476]

Where, I wanna seize that opportunity

[@jacksontriffon5064]

@@bennyblubman9476 8:35 enjoy :)

[@patrickjay6434]

Brilliant, simple tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

[@blackbladedaxe]

Great video man! I'm working my way through them all steadily. Just a little advice for this one: You may want to put in a little warning about flashing imagery at the beginning, because that animated texture is pretty flashy. All in all though, good work.

[@IkaBakaKu]

Wow, I finally learned why my world environment was glitching my glow & ligh2d on my tilsets when I set z index to 1 on upper layers... I should have set everything to z -99.. You're a LIFE SAVER!!! Thank you for this video!

[@sayftysayfty4228]

I tried to work with the GodotTilemaps but as you said, the documentation is very poor. So thanks for your video, it helps me a lot.

[@Hislodin]

Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@allanrodrigueslima1483]

Really good tutorial man, thanks

[@arinzengonadi3471]

thank you so much this tutorial has helped me a lot

[@marlonhelder]

Great content! Thank you for sharing man!

[@dajoma36]

Thank you shepherd, very helpful.

[@zachariahm.kemper7406]

I feel the flashing lights wasn't the smartest way of showing animated tiles, I was going to share this video but the people I'd share it with happen to be seizure prone

[@tejaswithme3713]

Not gonna lie, I accidently clicked on this video instead of clicking on another tutorial and Oh boy! not gonna lie it explained soo much better. I'm total beginner, literally I'm learning Godot from heartbeast's old rpg series. Thank you soooo much Andrew, this was an amazing tutorial, which didn't only taught me how to operate tile map, but also sculpted my thinking process to think in godot's flow... I also sub you... Thank you soo soo much for this & love from India 🦚!!!

[@lakewaltz]

Super helpful thanks

[@Movin_nero]

THANK YOU

[@Zejoant]

what if i wanna add special "abilites" to specific tiles. like a box that can move if you walk into it?

[@CharleswoodSpudzyofficial]

How about adding all of the tiles from a Sprite atlas at once? I don't want to have to drill down and back up o vfc or and over again to add the textures to my tilemap

[@felipemoreno134]

Es muy bueno el tutorial, ojalá estuviera en español o con subtitulos.

[@digitalman2112]

For animated tiles, are the animations synced for the same tile? meaning if you have an animated terrain tile and you put a bunch together and want them to always be displaying the same frame as the others. (think the water tile in Ultima)

[@GormlessGob]

I'd asume so, since they are all tecnically created at the same time when loaded.

[@rlwarner777]

My main issue with tilemaps is that Godot doesn't let you easily create an isometric scene.

[@igorthelight]

@@rlwarner777 True! But that teaches you a lot ;-)

[@nikluz3807]

Is it possible to build tilemaps out of Godots primitive 2d shapes (a zero-asset game essentially)?

[@comradecid]

is there a newer version of this video using Godot 4?

[@ml.9106]

nice

[@ysgramornorris2452]

3:20 Can I do the opposite of that? I have 64x64 tiles, but when trying to create an atlas for them, it won't create anything but 32x32 tiles, slicing my tiles into 4 quarter-sized chunks.

[@HeroCP7]

how do i animate the tile using a image atlas? separating the frame into individual images is a pain

[@user-hl5zx1qh7s]

How to scale the size of the image from tileMap?

[@mistermojoo3083]

At 3:20 you change cell from 64 to 32. But I want to do the opposite: so double the size of the tiles of the tileset. How do I do this?

[@jcen_]

So you want to have each tile be a 128x128 sprite or just have 64x64 tiles that are scaled x 2?

[@mistermojoo3083]

@@jcen_ Thanks for the reaction but i figured it out ;)

[@armyofchickens6062]

Are you going to be making any videos like this for v4.0?

[@and1hof]

probably after the summer. right now my time is split between a few non-youtube projects

[@armyofchickens6062]

@@and1hof Sounds great! just not that many tutorials rn on godot 4

[@jacksontriffon5064]

What about walking behind objects?

[@Ghorda9]

it's no different, just use the z index.

[@jacksontriffon5064]

@@Ghorda9 oh sweet, thanks :)

[@joeyinfn]

Y Sort

[@varthshenon]

Warning seizure 8:35 to 9:01

[@Movin_nero]

thanks

[@coyotewld]

Thanks for tutorial but tilemap/tileset UI in godot is absolutely horrible

[@thomasmeslin8399]

:)