Using 2019.4 and I can’t find any mention anywhere of copy/paste functionality with tilemaps besides an old post from 4 years ago (and the key combos mentioned there do not work).
I have some carefully placed arrangements of tiles that would be awful to manually place again and again, but cannot find how to copy/paste with the editor.
Anyone figure this out? The only keys that the Unity team has made public are rotation/flipping and some other functionality that’s not copy/paste related.
You want the eyedropper tool in the Tile Palette. It’s between the eraser and box fill. You can click-and-drag it to select an area. Then click to place. Shift+Click, like with many other tools, will delete in that area.
That did it! Thank you very much. Wish this stuff was documented somewhere…
Is there anyway we can improve the documentation for the Picker Tool (Unity - Manual: Painting on Tilemaps) ? Thanks!
I suppose either the ‘select tool’ could mention that copy/paste is done with the picker tool, or at the bottom near the “Shortcut Key” there could be a note that Control-C / Control-V doesnt work for tiles and to look at the picker tool instead for cloning one/many tiles.
I didn’t think to read the picker section because that tool is never used for cloning in other creative programs.
Thanks for the feedback! We will check this out for improving our documentation!