What are the best tilemapping tools for Unity?

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What are the best tilemapping tools for Unity?

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Best tilemapping tools for Unity	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
-- 2D Toolkit	-	-	Nov 11, 2021
-- Tiled	-	Windows, Linux, Mac	Feb 25, 2021
-- AutoTileGen	-	-	Mar 9, 2015

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2D Toolkit

Top Pro

Good documentation

The documentation for the toolkit is well written and there are video tutorials as well as an active community. See More

Top Con

Doesn't integrate with Unity's Sprite system

2D Toolkit provides a completely proprietary sprite implementation. Though it can be used alongside Unity's 2D systems, the two are completely separate and require different code to utilize. See More

Top Pro

Includes source code

No need to pay more to get access to the source code. See More

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Pixel-perfect camera

Pixel games in the style of 8 or 16 bit systems need to have each pixel uniform on the screen which 2D Toolkit supports with a camera component. See More

Top Pro

Add colliders in the atlas editor

Choose from either a box, sphere, or mesh collider that will output as either a 3D or 2D collider in Unity. See More

Top Pro

Create different resolutions of atlas

2D Toolkit allows for different sizes of atlas from 1x, 2x, or 4x which can be changed depending on platform resolution. See More

Top Pro

Built to work inside Unity

2D Toolkit is an editor extension so users don’t have to leave the Unity engine for tile mapping. See More

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Create Atlases within the tool

Create sprite sheets for tiles to save draw calls and to keep tilesets organized. See More

Top Pro

Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Create tilemaps in Tiled and implement with 2D Toolkit. See More

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Tiled

Top Pro

Use Automapping to speed up tiling

Set up automated rules for tiles, such as creating colliders or spawning enemy groups. See More

Top Con

Single tile size per map

Tiled supports only one tile size per map, even on multi-layer maps. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Top Pro

Supports Orthographic and Isometric tiles

Tiled works with both tile styles to create maps and allows tiles to be non uniform shape (width does not equal height) to create perspective. See More

Top Pro

Automated terrain blending

Tiled will automatically create borders for different terrain types set up by the user. Has some setup time to get things working but helps in the mapping process. See More

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AutoTileGen

Top Pro

Free tile-placement plugin

AutoTileSet is a tile placing tool part of the AutoTileGen family that is supported in Unity, Construct 2, and GameMaker to create tilemaps. AutoTileSet does not need AutoTileGen to work. See More

Top Con

Extra work needed for Isometric Tiles

Isometric tiles are not technically supported but can be achieved with camera work and setting up tile art yourself. See More

Top Pro

Auto-creates tilesheets

Auto Gen Tile takes a few image parameters and a few settings that will quickly create a full tilesheet with 48 tiles for full bordered terrains. See More

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Auto-creates borders on tilemap

While placing tiles on the tilemap AutoTileSet will place appropriate borders and filler tiles instead of the user having to change each tile for each variation. It also support multiple tile sheets for variation and placing them correctly. See More

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What are the best tilemapping tools for Unity?

3 Options Considered

2D Toolkit

My Recommendation for 2D Toolkit

My Recommendation for 2D Toolkit

Good documentation

Doesn't integrate with Unity's Sprite system

Includes source code

Pixel-perfect camera

Add colliders in the atlas editor

Create different resolutions of atlas

Built to work inside Unity

Create Atlases within the tool

Supports the Tiled TMX Format

Tiled

My Recommendation for Tiled

My Recommendation for Tiled

Use Automapping to speed up tiling

Single tile size per map

Supports Orthographic and Isometric tiles

Automated terrain blending

AutoTileGen

My Recommendation for AutoTileGen

My Recommendation for AutoTileGen

Free tile-placement plugin

Extra work needed for Isometric Tiles

Auto-creates tilesheets

Auto-creates borders on tilemap

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