Create a 2d tile

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Hello I am new to Unity ish and trying to learn more about 2d and creating tilemaps and tilesets. I have a texture pack I found online and want to make tiles using those. What is the best way to do that? I see the guides saying to drag and drop into a tile palette but not sure why that isn’t working. Any assistance on how to create a tile if I have a texture that would be awesome!

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Well if you’re not sure, imagine how WE feel!! We can’t even see your screen or read your mind.

I suggest working through two or three tutorials on tilemaps. They definitely work.

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someways to create a 2d tile:

drag a sprite into a tile pallete, it will offer to create a tile asset

2 - already have a 2d tile created, use duplicate or copy paste to create the tile

3 - use code to create a asset of a 2d tile ScriptableObject.CreateInstance()

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I use textures like you as well but I made mine in Blender. In Gimp I made a blank tilesheet which is just a PNG transparent image big enough to hold all the textures. Example if 256x256 is your image size then just do the math for the tilesheet size based on that for how many textures you need to put in the sheet. I like Gimp because I can go to VIEW and make a grid and then snap to grid which makes this really easy. Drag your textures into their slots and then when done export the file.

You can pick up the rest from Youtube tutorials on importing the tilesheet. Its really not that bad once you get the hang of it.