Is there any way to directly reference a tile palette in code and access the tiles by index?

Unity Engine
1

I want to have use a defined tile palette as I loop over the tilemap and place tiles at “random”.
Something like this?

System.Random rand = new System.Random();
for (int y = 0; y <= maxY; y++)
{
    for (int x = 0; x <= maxX; x++)
    {
        this.map.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), this.palette[(rand.Next(0,75)]);
    }
}

Is there any way to access the tile palette in this way? pallette[<index>]

2

The palette won’t exist at runtime… Internally the palette is just a scene with a tile map loaded. You could probably read it from the palette asset file. an alternative option is to populate your scene tilemap in the editor before run.

3

There might be, but I highly suspect you’re wasting your time even trying.
Somewhere, sometime, you’re going to need to say what tile means what. At that point you’ll need to create a reference link between the tile itself and the properties, so you might as well just do it now. Create a master tile list and use that instead. A bit of grunt work to be sure, but ultimately you’ll have to do it anyway.

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