Paper Item

Paper item is my implementation for those who want to mimic the paper2D feature in tiled level. Simply use some special material setup and you can let plane mesh behave like what paper 2D do. After that, you can incorporate all exisitng tiled level tools for you 2D workflow. Although, everything is basically the same, there are still some tweaks to improve the 2D workflow. In this tutorial, I will guide you the required tweaks for tiny swords free pack.

This is the final result after this tutorial:

(this tutorial is based on tiled level v5.0.2)

Prepare Asset

Download Asset

Go to tiny swords free pack download the asset.

Import Asset to your Content Browser

Here is the assets required for this tutorial (29 png files)

Buildings/Black Buildings/*.png (choose one color you like)
Decorations/Bushes/*.png
Decorations/Rocks/*.png
Decorations/Trees/*.png
Decorations/Bushes/*.png
Terrain/*.png

Import them to your content browser and rename them properly.

You can use batch rename tool Shift+F2 to quickly add prefix, remove suffix, and replace string.

Apply Paper 2D Settings

Right-click on the textures you just imported and apply the Paper2D texture settings. (Sprite Actions ➡ Apply Paper2D Texture Settings)

Prepare Item Set

Create Item Set

Create a new tiled item set.
Set tile size as 100x100x10.
Set default collision plane as SM_PlaneBoxCollision

For 2D workflow, the height between each floor should be smaller value. However, if it’s too small (<= 5), the preview extent may become invisible.

Create Single Tile Paper Items

Drag the following textures to item palette.
- Buildings
- Rocks
- Water_Background
Press ok, no need to change any value.

Chage the extent of building items. Since this pack is designed in 64x64, and based on the raw texture size, the tile extent should be:
- T_Castle ➡ 5 x 4
- T_House1 ➡ 2 x 3
- T_House2 ➡ 2 x 3
- T_House3 ➡ 2 x 3
- T_Tower ➡ 2 x 4

Create Flipbook Paper Items

Drag the following textures to item palette.
- Bush 1~4
- Tree 1~4
- Water_Elevation 1~4
- Water_FlatGround 1~4
Change 2D Type to Flipbook
Set column count to:
- Bush and Tree ➡ 8
- Water ➡ 12
you can bulk edit these properties in this step.
Change extent
- Bush 1~4 ➡ 2 x 2
- Tree 1 and 2 ➡ 3 x 4
- Tree 3 and 4 ➡ 3 x 3
Change Structure for Bushes and Trees to Prop

Create Multiple Tile Paper Items

Drag one of the terrain texture (color 1) to item palette
Set 2D type to Multiple, Row Count to 8, and Column Count to 20. (Size of original texture is 1280 x 512)

160 paper items will show up with suffix __R_C. Which represents their row and column position in original texture.
Delete empty and duplicated items.

Take this as reference.

The only unique part is marked in pink for you. Just delete all other items, and only keep 32 of them.
Select terrain items (28 of 32)
Duplicate & Change texture to color 2
Repeat 4~5 for another color. Done!