Tutorial: From RPG Maker to Tiled

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A quick guide to editing 4x4 RPGMaker format tiles to the 3x3 Tiled format.

At one point I switched to Tiled from RPGMaker VX Ace for making tiled maps and it’s pretty good! The map changes automatically when you update the image, and it’s a lot more flexible with layers. Most importantly, it runs on the Mac.

The one annoying thing is editing my autotiles from the 4x4 RPGMaker format to the 3x3 Tiled format. Here’s a quick guide image for how I edited my tiles: Tiled and RPGMaker autotiles, with the preview in the top left, inside corners at the top right, and main tiles underneath. The tiles are numbered to show how to rearrange them