Help setting up Isometric Tilemap for 2D Project

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Hello! I was wondering if anyone has experience using the Isometric Tilemap in a 2D project?

I’m following some guides but not able to see the grid in my project. I tried setting the custom sorting axis to the ones defined in the article here: Unity - Manual: Creating an Isometric Tilemap but nothing is showing up sadly. Finding videos on the topic seem scarce on youtube as well.

I assumed I need to use the swapped Z and Y isometric tilemap since it’s 2D and that seems consistent with my project. I’m trying to use it bc I have a map in my game where i’d like to snap locations to an isometric grid, so this seems like a good solution?

for now, i’m just using an overlay of some graph paper which is kinda sloppy (and doesnt get snapping)

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The tilemap is set up under a Grid component in my project, yet it appears as a line and I don’t know how to get it to show properly.

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Yeah that line looks weird. Try using isometric tilemaps in an empty project, maybe something in your project is messing them up.

Also make sure your grid & tilemap is in camera’s culling bounds and is not rotated. The grid lines on your image looks rotated.