TileSet Clipboard

A Godot addon that adds advanced copying-and-pasting to the tile set editor.

Features showcase

You can copy and paste multiple tiles:

You can filter which properties are pasted and optionaly duplicate when pasting (for instance when pasting resources):

You can undo and redo pasting:

Controls are intuitive; they work mostly like in a spreadsheet:

Features a terrain replacer too:

Example use case:

Static images

Property filters and quick settings:

Settings:

RoadMap

I leave the "maybe" stuff for now. If you are interested by their implementation, open an issue.

• Add shortcut (ctrl + c and ctr + v). Unknown feasibility. Maybe needs this Godot PR.
  • Add shortcut: shift + c and shift + v (Found after a lot of trouble that it was possible by grabing focus and using BaseButton's shortcut, and that the shift modifier was the only one not intercepted by other GUI)
• Add a way to filter which properties are pasted.
  • Display custom data name instead of "custom_data_0", "custom_data_1", "custom_data_2"...
  • (Maybe) Add a way to filter property components (such as x and y for Vector2 properties)
  • (Maybe) Display value type
  • (Maybe) Fold peering bits into one property
• Paste from upper left corner. (Similar to LO Calc when pasting multiple cells in one cell). Unknown feasibility.
• Add wrapping pasting. (Similar to LO Calc when pasting in more cells than there are selected) .
• (Maybe) Cross instance copy paste (though serialization in the OS paste bin). Unknown feasibility.
• (Maybe) Add a way to flip or rotate the copied properties (or the selection?)

Installation

You can download the addon:

• On GitHub: Code → Download ZIP.
• Through the editor: AssetLib → Search for "TileSet Clipboard"

By default, this readme is included, along with it's illustrations. If you don't want them, do not download addons/tile_set_clipboard.editor/README.md nor .assets_for_readme/*

You can also exclude *.editor/* or tile_set_clipboard.editor/ from your export presets, because this addon is editor-only.

FAQ

Doesn't Godot's TileSetEditor already have copying-and-pasting?

Yes, but only for one source tile and one property at a time. This addons supports copying-and-pasting multiple properties from multiple tiles at the same time.

Can I copy and paste from a TileSet to another?

Yes, but the addon won't paste properties that are set to the default value (because get_property_list() don't give them for some reason). As a workaround, you can copy-paste a tile from the destination TileSet to the source TileSet at an unused place. When copying tiles from that source, the addon will notice that a cell in the source has more properties and will copy the unmodified properties.

Godot version

Minimal Godot version: 4.4

See the 4.3-backport branch for a Godot 4.3 compatible version.

Credits

The way to interact with the tile set editor trough GDScript was found on github.com/dandeliondino/tile_bit_tools. I used some of his code in scrapper.gd

Development Status

LTS (Only bugfixes)