Tagging a tile

[brittany]

I would like to use the Tilemap to place certain tiles in my scene. There is nothing special about these tiles other than I want to set their tag and their layer. How can I do that?

[Kurt-Dekker]

Tags happen at the GameObject level but Tiles are actually derived from ScriptableObjects.

I think you can get a similar effect with some light coding and using Scriptable Tiles.

Unity - Manual: Create a scriptable tile with a provided example

That would let you have whatever properties you like that you could query.

[brittany]

@Kurt-Dekker

Tags happen at the GameObject level but Tiles are actually derived from ScriptableObjects.

I think you can get a similar effect with some light coding and using Scriptable Tiles.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Tilemap-ScriptableTiles-Example.html

That would let you have whatever properties you like that you could query.

Thank you Kurt; I will look into that. Another idea I had (not sure if it is a good one) is that I think there is a gameobject brush. So I could have sprite gameobject that I use with that.