Tile Preview in a Custom Inspector

Unity Engine
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I was wondering, is there a way to render an asset preview for a custom tile?
I suppose I could create a custom inspector, override RenderStaticPreview, take the tile’s sprite’s texture (which would be tricky as it’s a Multiple sprite) and multiply every pixel by the tile’s color, but I think there should be an easier way since Unity already does all that for default tiles.
Also, why not make a preview render automatically for any custom tile that derives from Tile, without the need of a custom incpector (it has a Sprite, what else do you need?) ?
This is especially annoying because in my project I have a custom inspector for the Tile class, so I don’t have default previews at all, and it becomes a lot harder to navigate in the assets.

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Feature request: Custom Tile editor asset preview
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Ok, here’s what I did for now. But this really should be a default feature.

public override Texture2D RenderStaticPreview(string assetPath, Object[] subAssets, int width, int height)
    {
        Tile tile = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Tile>(assetPath);
        if (tile.sprite != null)
        {
            Texture2D spritePreview = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(tile.sprite); // Get sprite texture

            Color[] pixels = spritePreview.GetPixels();
            for (int i = 0; i < pixels.Length; i++)
            {
                pixels[i] = pixels[i] * tile.color; // Tint
            }
            spritePreview.SetPixels(pixels);
            spritePreview.Apply();

            Texture2D preview = new Texture2D(width, height);
            EditorUtility.CopySerialized(spritePreview, preview); // Returning the original texture causes an editor crash
            return preview;
        }
        return null;
    }
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