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Pixel Tile Editor

The Pixel Tile Editor is Eldiron’s integrated pixel editor for authored tiles.

It opens when:

Changes are reflected immediately in the project and on the map.

What It Edits​

The pixel editor works on authored tile textures and their frames. It is used for:

  • painting tile pixels directly
  • editing animated tile frames
  • selecting and pasting pixel regions
  • updating the final tile that is used in 2D and 3D

Undo / redo is tile-based. Each tile has its own undo stack.

Core Tools​

The editor currently has these core tools:

  • Draw Tool (D): paint pixels with the current color
  • Fill Tool (F): flood-fill connected pixels
  • Eraser Tool (E): clear pixels to transparency
  • Selection Tool (S): create, add, or subtract rectangular selections

If a selection exists, drawing, filling, and erasing are limited to that selected area.

Useful Shortcuts​

  • Cmd/Ctrl + C: copy selected pixels, or the whole tile if nothing is selected
  • Cmd/Ctrl + X: cut the current selection
  • Cmd/Ctrl + V: paste image data as a paste preview
  • Enter: apply the current paste preview
  • Escape: cancel the current paste preview
  • H: flip horizontally
  • V: flip vertically
  • F: activate Fill
  • E: activate Eraser
  • Space: toggle animated preview

Paste preview and direct drawing are separate modes. While paste preview is active, place or cancel it first, then continue painting.

Materials And Normals​

Tiles in Eldiron are used in both 2D and 3D, so the final tile data also carries packed material data and normals.

For authored pixel tiles:

  • editing changes the visible tile texture directly
  • normals are generated from the tile texture/material data path used by Eldiron

Procedural node groups use the node graph editor instead and can generate height-driven normals from graph output.