Any suggestions for creating tilemaps for Defold? I’ve tried Tilesetter - Tileset generator & map editor tool by Led but find the UI very confusing, I just ran across high praise for https://ldtk.io/ (but haven’t used it yet myself), and of course https://www.mapeditor.org/ seems to be the standard answer. Or is it better/easier/recommended to just use the tilemap editor features built into Defold itself?
If you are making a game with heavy use of tilemaps I’d recommend https://www.mapeditor.org/ because it’s very flexible. If you export as Lua files instead of Defold’s native format you can include more of the meta data and then manually import that data into your collections / tilemaps.
The builtin tilemap editor should only be used for basic setups until it gets a ton of more features and quality of life improvements.
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Tiled (mapeditor.org) seems to be the most popular of the ones you mentioned, and it can export directly to Defold (Tilesetter can also do this). Ldtk looks really nice but I haven’t tried it.
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