[Godot RPG] #4 : Tilemap

Welcome back to game programming with Godot Engine and after many months of disappearance, this Tutorial will now be continued both on the anonyviet website and youtube DeathGM ^^.

Without further ado, let’s get started.

Download Asset

First we need a tileset and you can go to this link to download: 2D Pixel Art Forest Tileset

Please go to Download to download for those who are poor at English -_-.

After downloading, put it in the game here and I will put it in the folder that will contain your Art.

Create Tilemap

Create Tilemap Node

First, add the Tilemap button.

Then in the Line Inspector panel Tileset In the empty box, click and select New Tileset.

Add Texture to Tileset

Let’s add a new Texture to the Tileset. Click on the image below to add it.

Then select the tileset we downloaded above.

Create Tiles

Next we will create tiles. Here, Atlas is wrong, not AutoTile. I will have a tutorial on Autotile later.-.

Click on New Atlas and select the grid icon to display the grid.

Here, my tile size is 32×32, which fits the grid size, so there is no need to adjust it. If it doesn’t fit, you need to adjust it, which is usually the case.

You drag the tiles you need to use. Here I will drag the first 6 tiles

That’s it, the next step is to go outside and place the tiles.

Set Tiles

Click on the tilemap, then on the right panel, the Atlas we just created will appear, then click to select the tile to place.

You will notice that when placing tiles, it is quite like c*c .-. So we need to resize the tilemap node to match the size of the tileset, which is 32×32.

Please go to Cell and adjust from 64×64 to 32×32.

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And now it’s time to put the tiles down and decorate

And this is after I trimmed it a bit, it’s ok but quite extreme. I will write about Autotile and Godot in a separate article. Let’s rewrite it, but there was a tilemap article a while ago because my knowledge was still limited so I wrote a lot of mistakes

Summary

So that’s the end of lesson 4 of creating a Tilemap for your RPG game with Godot Engine. See you later.

Frequently asked questions

What resources do I need to download to get started?

You need to load a tileset. The article provides a download link to a 2D pixel art forest tileset.

How to add texture to Tileset in Godot?

After creating a Tilemap Node, in the Inspector, in the Tileset section, click “New Tileset”. Then, add texture by clicking the image button and selecting the downloaded tileset file.

How should the Tile Size (Cell Size) be set?

Tile size should match the size of the image in the tileset. In this example, the size is 32×32 pixels.