Tiled 1.12 Alpha

This Alpha release is to gather feedback on the new Properties view (#4045). Please leave feedback on the issue, chat on Tiled Discord or use the discussion thread attached to this release. Thanks!

Tiled 1.11.0

Release Announcement

Changelog

• Added --project command-line parameter for use when exporting (#3797)
• Added group layer names in "Move Object to Layer" menu (#3454)
• Added lock icon to open tabs for which the file is read-only
• Added Shift modifier to cut when capturing a tile stamp (by kdx2a, #3961)
• Made adding "Copy" when duplicating optional and disabled by default (#3917)
• Changed default shortcut for "Save As" to Ctrl+Shift+S and removed shortcut from "Save All" (#3933)
• Layer names are now trimmed when edited in the UI, to avoid accidental whitespace
• Scripting: Added API for working with worlds (with dogboydog, #3539)
• Scripting: Added Object.setProperty overload for setting nested values
• Scripting: Added Tile.image for accessing a tile's image data
• Scripting: Added Image.copy overload that takes a rectangle
• Scripting: Added Tileset.imageFileName and ImageLayer.imageFileName
• Scripting: Added FilePath.localFile and FileEdit.fileName (string alternatives to Qt.QUrl properties)
• Scripting: Added tiled.color to create color values
• Scripting: Made Tileset.margin and Tileset.tileSpacing writable
• Scripting: Restored compatibility for MapObject.polygon (#3845)
• Scripting: Fixed issues with editing properties after setting class values from script
• Scripting: Fixed setting/getting object reference values when nested as a class member
• TMX format: Embedded images are now also supported on tilesets and image layers
• JSON format: Fixed tile order when loading a tileset using the old format
• Godot 4 plugin: Added support for exporting objects (by Rick Yorgason, #3615)
• Godot 4 plugin: Use Godot 4.2 tile transformation flags (by Rick Yorgason, #3895)
• Godot 4 plugin: Fixed positioning of tile collision shapes (by Ryan Petrie, #3862)
• GameMaker 2 plugin: Fixed positioning of objects on isometric maps
• Python plugin: Added support for implementing tileset formats (with Pablo Duboue, #3857)
• Python plugin: Raised minimum Python version to 3.8
• Python plugin: Now built against Python 3.12 for Windows 10+
• tmxrasterizer: Added --hide-object and --show-object arguments (by Lars Luz, #3819)
• tmxrasterizer: Added --frames and --frame-duration arguments to export animated maps as multiple images (#3868)
• tmxrasterizer: Fixed --hide/show-layer to work on group layers (#3899)
• tmxviewer: Added support for viewing JSON maps (#3866)
• tmxrasterizer/viewer: Fixed loading of XML object templates (with Christian Schaadt, #3977)
• AutoMapping: Ignore empty outputs per-rule (#3523)
• Automapping: Added per-input-layer properties for ignoring flip flags (#3803)
• AutoMapping: Always apply output sets with empty index
• AutoMapping: Fixed adding of new tilesets used by applied changes
• Windows: Fixed the support for WebP images (updated to Qt 6.6.1, #3661)
• Fixed issues related to map and tileset reloading
• Fixed possible crash after assigning to tiled.activeAsset
• Fixed the option to resolve properties on export to also resolve class members (#3411, #3315)
• Fixed terrain tool behavior and terrain overlays after changing terrain set type (#3204, #3260)
• Fixed mouse handling issue when zooming while painting (#3863)
• Fixed possible crash after a scripted tool disappears while active
• Fixed updating of used tilesets after resizing map (#3884)
• Fixed alignment of shortcuts in action search
• Fixed object assignment buttons in tile collision editor (#3399)
• AppImage: Fixed ability to open paths with spaces from the CLI (#3914)
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.7.6
• Updated Bulgarian, Czech, French and Russian translations

Tiled 1.10.91

This is a release candidate!

Changelog

• Added --project command-line parameter for use when exporting (#3797)
• Added group layer names in "Move Object to Layer" menu (#3454)
• Added lock icon to open tabs for which the file is read-only
• Added Shift modifier to cut when capturing a tile stamp (by kdx2a, #3961)
• Made adding "Copy" when duplicating optional and disabled by default (#3917)
• Changed default shortcut for "Save As" to Ctrl+Shift+S and removed shortcut from "Save All" (#3933)
• Layer names are now trimmed when edited in the UI, to avoid accidental whitespace
• Scripting: Added API for working with worlds (#3539)
• Scripting: Added Object.setProperty overload for setting nested values
• Scripting: Added Tile.image for accessing a tile's image data
• Scripting: Added Image.copy overload that takes a rectangle
• Scripting: Added Tileset.imageFileName and ImageLayer.imageFileName
• Scripting: Added FilePath.localFile and FileEdit.fileName (string alternatives to Qt.QUrl properties)
• Scripting: Added tiled.color to create color values
• Scripting: Made Tileset.margin and Tileset.tileSpacing writable
• Scripting: Restored compatibility for MapObject.polygon (#3845)
• Scripting: Fixed issues with editing properties after setting class values from script
• Scripting: Fixed setting/getting object reference values when nested as a class member
• TMX format: Embedded images are now also supported on tilesets and image layers
• JSON format: Fixed tile order when loading a tileset using the old format
• Godot 4 plugin: Added support for exporting objects (by Rick Yorgason, #3615)
• Godot 4 plugin: Use Godot 4.2 tile transformation flags (by Rick Yorgason, #3895)
• Godot 4 plugin: Fixed positioning of tile collision shapes (by Ryan Petrie, #3862)
• GameMaker 2 plugin: Fixed positioning of objects on isometric maps
• Python plugin: Added support for implementing tileset formats (with Pablo Duboue, #3857)
• Python plugin: Raised minimum Python version to 3.8
• Python plugin: Now built against Python 3.12 for Windows 10+
• tmxrasterizer: Added --hide-object and --show-object arguments (by Lars Luz, #3819)
• tmxrasterizer: Added --frames and --frame-duration arguments to export animated maps as multiple images (#3868)
• tmxrasterizer: Fixed --hide/show-layer to work on group layers (#3899)
• tmxviewer: Added support for viewing JSON maps (#3866)
• tmxrasterizer/viewer: Fixed loading of XML object templates (with Christian Schaadt, #3977)
• AutoMapping: Ignore empty outputs per-rule (#3523)
• Automapping: Added per-input-layer properties for ignoring flip flags (#3803)
• AutoMapping: Always apply output sets with empty index
• AutoMapping: Fixed adding of new tilesets used by applied changes
• Windows: Fixed the support for WebP images (updated to Qt 6.6.1, #3661)
• Fixed issues related to map and tileset reloading
• Fixed possible crash after assigning to tiled.activeAsset
• Fixed the option to resolve properties on export to also resolve class members (#3411, #3315)
• Fixed terrain tool behavior and terrain overlays after changing terrain set type (#3204, #3260)
• Fixed mouse handling issue when zooming while painting (#3863)
• Fixed possible crash after a scripted tool disappears while active
• Fixed updating of used tilesets after resizing map (#3884)
• Fixed alignment of shortcuts in action search
• Fixed object assignment buttons in tile collision editor (#3399)
• AppImage: Fixed ability to open paths with spaces from the CLI (#3914)
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.7.6

Tiled 1.10.2

Release Announcement

Changelog

• Added support for setting custom properties on the project (with dogboydog, #2903)
• Added feedback when Terrain Brush and Terrain Fill Mode can't find a tile
• Removed Space and Ctrl+Space shortcuts from Layers view to avoid conflict with panning (#3672)
• Display the image base name for unnamed tile objects referring to single images
• Scripting: Added API for editing tile layers using terrain sets (with a-morphous, #3758)
• Scripting: Added file dialog API (with dogboydog, #3782)
• Scripting: Support erasing tiles in Tool.preview and TileMap.merge
• Scripting: Added Geometry interface with line and ellipse helpers
• Scripting: Added WangSet.effectiveTypeForColor
• Fixed crash when changing file property of custom class (#3783)
• Fixed loading of invalid color properties (#3793)
• Fixed handling of enum values with 31 flags and fixed the applied limit (#3658)
• Fixed object preview position with parallax factor on group layer (#3669)
• Fixed hover highlight rendering with active parallax factor (#3669)
• Fixed updating of object selection outlines when changing parallax factor (#3669)
• Fixed "Offset Map" action to offset all objects when choosing "Whole Map" as bounds
• Fixed several issues with drawing ellipses (#3776)
• Fixed Terrain Fill Mode for sets containing transitions to empty (#3774)
• Godot 4 plugin: Export custom tile properties as Custom Data Layers (with Kevin Harrison, #3653)
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.6.5
• Qt 6: Increased the image allocation limit from 1 GB to 4 GB (#3616)
• macOS: The macOS 10.14+ build is now a Universal macOS Binary (#3707)

Tiled 1.10.1

Read the release notes for this release.

Note that the initial Windows builds of 1.10.1 unfortunately shipped with a tiled.exe that didn't have an icon. This was corrected the next day, so if you're affected by this problem you can just re-download the installer to fix the icon.

Changelog

• Make panning with Space require pressing a mouse button as well (#3626)
• Scripting: Added read-only access to Project properties (by dogboydog, #3622)
• Scripting: Fixed behavior of Dialog.SameWidgetRows (#3607)
• Fixed object labels to adjust to application font changes
• Fixed grid rendering for odd Hex Side Length values (#3623)
• Fixed tile stamp getting messed up on staggered maps in some cases (#3431)
• JSON plugin: Fixed loading of empty tilesets created by script (#3542)
• Godot 4 plugin: Removed depth limit for .godot project file (#3612)
• Improved Terrain Brush for Hexagonal (Staggered) maps with side length 0 (#3617)
• Removed "Add Folder to Project" button from the startup page
• Qt 6: Increased the image allocation limit from 128 MB to 1 GB (#3616)
• Qt 6 / Linux: Fixed long startup time for some icon themes
• snap: Updated from core20 to core22 (now uses Qt 5.15)
• Qbs: Added projects.Tiled.libDir option (#3613)

Tiled 1.10.0

Read the release notes for this release.

Changelog

• Restored Tiled 1.8 file format compatibility by default (#3560)
• Added action search popup on Ctrl+Shift+P (with dogboydog, #3449)
• Added Godot 4 export plugin (by Rick Yorgason, #3550)
• Added file system actions also for tileset image based tilesets (#3448)
• Added custom class option to disable drawing fill for objects (with dogboydog, #3312)
• Added option to choose a custom interface font (#3589)
• Implemented rendering of major grid lines for staggered / hexagonal maps (#3583)
• Fixed new layer names to be always unique (by Logan Higinbotham, #3452)
• Fixed broken tile images after importing/exporting a tileset
• AutoMapping: Added support for output set probability (#3179)
• AutoMapping: When input regions are defined, match in order by default (#3559)
• AutoMapping: Skip locked layers when applying rules (#3544)
• AutoMapping: Fixed NoOverlappingOutput in case of multiple output indices (#3551)
• AutoMapping: Fixed automatic output regions for object output (#3473)
• AutoMapping: Fixed crash on undo when output layers have properties
• Scripting: Added Object.setColorProperty and Object.setFloatProperty (#3423)
• Scripting: Added tiled.projectFilePath
• Scripting: Added tiled.versionLessThan
• Scripting: Added TileMap.toImage (#3519)
• Scripting: Added Tool.targetLayerType (#3248)
• Scripting: Added region.contiguousRegions() (#3576)
• Scripting: Added tiled.compress and tiled.decompress (#3153)
• Scripting: Added Base64 encoding and decoding API (#3153)
• Scripting: Allow assigning null to Tile.objectGroup (by Logan Higinbotham, #3495)
• Scripting: Allow changing the items in a combo box added to a dialog
• Scripting: Fixed painting issues after changing TileLayer size (#3481)
• Scripting: Renamed Tileset.collection to Tileset.isCollection (#3543)
• Defold plugin: Allow overriding z value also when exporting to .collection (#3214)
• Qt 6: Fixed invisible tileset tabs when only a single tileset is open
• Qt 6: Fixed behavior of "Class of" selection popup
• Qt 6: Fixed tile rendering when OpenGL is enabled (#3578)
• Fixed positioning of point object name labels (by Logan Higinbotham, #3400)
• Fixed slight drift when zooming the map view in/out
• Fixed remaining lag after switching off hardware acceleration (#3584)
• Fixed point object hover highlight position (#3571)
• Fixed drawing lines with stamps having differently sized variations (#3533)
• Fixed compile against Qt 6.4
• snap: Added Wayland platform plugin and additional image format plugins
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.6.0
• Updated Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Russian and Swedish translations

New Contributors

• @lhiginbotham (#3501, #3502, #3511, #3513)
• @TheBoneJarmer (#3529)
• @OnlineCop (#3547)
• @podsvirov (#3563)
• @Skrapion (#3550)
• @jzischkau (#3579)
• @solovyovs (#3466)

Full Changelog: v1.9.2...v1.10.0

Tiled 1.10 RC

This is a Release Candidate for Tiled 1.10, which is expected to be out next week.

Changelog

• Restored Tiled 1.8 file format compatibility by default (#3560)
• Added action search popup on Ctrl+Shift+P (with dogboydog, #3449)
• Added Godot 4 export plugin (#3550)
• Added file system actions also for tileset image based tilesets (#3448)
• Added custom class option to disable drawing fill for objects (with dogboydog, #3312)
• Added option to choose a custom interface font (#3589)
• Implemented rendering of major grid lines for staggered / hexagonal maps (#3583)
• Fixed new layer names to be always unique (by Logan Higinbotham, #3452)
• Fixed broken tile images after importing/exporting a tileset
• AutoMapping: When input regions are defined, match in order by default (#3559)
• AutoMapping: Skip locked layers when applying rules (#3544)
• Scripting: Added Object.setColorProperty and Object.setFloatProperty (#3423)
• Scripting: Added tiled.projectFilePath
• Scripting: Added tiled.versionLessThan
• Scripting: Added TileMap.toImage (#3519)
• Scripting: Added Tool.targetLayerType (#3248)
• Scripting: Added region.contiguousRegions() (#3576)
• Scripting: Added tiled.compress and tiled.decompress (#3153)
• Scripting: Added Base64 encoding and decoding API (#3153)
• Scripting: Allow assigning null to Tile.objectGroup (by Logan Higinbotham, #3495)
• Scripting: Allow changing the items in a combo box added to a dialog
• Scripting: Fixed painting issues after changing TileLayer size (#3481)
• Scripting: Renamed Tileset.collection to Tileset.isCollection (#3543)
• Defold plugin: Allow overriding z value also when exporting to .collection (#3214)
• Qt 6: Fixed invisible tileset tabs when only a single tileset is open
• Qt 6: Fixed behavior of "Class of" selection popup
• Qt 6: Fixed tile rendering when OpenGL is enabled (#3578)
• Fixed positioning of point object name labels (by Logan Higinbotham, #3400)
• Fixed slight drift when zooming the map view in/out
• Fixed remaining lag after switching off hardware acceleration (#3584)
• Fixed point object hover highlight position (#3571)
• Fixed drawing lines with stamps having differently sized variations (#3533)
• Fixed compile against Qt 6.4
• snap: Added Wayland platform plugin and additional image format plugins
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.5.4
• Updated Bulgarian, French and Swedish translations

Tiled 1.9.2

See the release notes for this release.

• Allow adding maps to image collection tilesets (#3447)
• Auto-detect JSON file format when importing custom types (#3472)
• Added file system actions to the tile context menu (#3448)
• Fixed possible crash in Custom Types Editor (#3465)
• Fixed display of overridden values from a nested class
• Fixed ability to reset nested string and file properties (#3409)
• Fixed changing nested property values for multiple objects (#3344)
• Fixed resolving of class properties on export to affect all data types (#3470)
• Fixed possible duplication of Automapping Rules Tileset (#3462)
• Fixed case where object labels could become visible for hidden layer (#3442)
• Fixed updating of custom property colors when changing style
• Scripting: Added Tileset.findTile
• AutoMapping: Fixed applying of rule probability (#3425)
• Defold plugin: Assign incrementing z values and allow specifying tile_set (#3214)
• Updates to German translation (by Christian Pervoelz)

Tiled 1.9.1

See the release notes for this release.

Changelog

• Fixed properties-related crash when having no project loaded
• Fixed loading of custom tile image rectangles (#3405)
• Fixed loading of member values for nested classes (#3414)
• Fixed visibility of "Move Object to Layer" sub-menu (#3417)
• Fixed shadow offset for other maps in a world (#3429)
• Fixed class dropdown to update immediately when changing custom types (#3398)
• Fixed deleting an overridden property to not make it disappear (#3409)
• Scripting: Added TilesetsView.currentTilesetChanged
• JSON plugin: Fixed loading image layer "repeatx/y" properties (by Jene Litsch, #3428)
• snap: Fixed startup error due to missing libQt5Concurrent.so.5 (#3408)
• AppImage: Use custom AppRun that can call all binaries (by Philipp Seiler, #3415)
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.5.0
• Updated Chinese (Simplified) and Portuguese translations

Tiled 1.9.0

Read the release notes for this release.

Changelog

• Added option to ignore transparent pixels when selecting tile objects (#1477)
• Added support for sub-images in image collection tilesets (#1008)
• Added "Class" field to all data types, referring to a custom class
• Added Tile Render Size and Fill Mode options to Tileset
• Added %worldfile variable for custom commands (by Pixel-Nori, #3352)
• Added 'New Project' action, replacing 'Save Project As' (#3279)
• Added ability to load .tiled-session files from command-line
• Merged Object Types with Property Types
• Don't scale point objects with the zoom level (#3356)
• Take into account image layer content when determining visual map size (#3386)
• Scripting: Added Dialog API for building custom UI (by tileboydog, #3384)
• Scripting: Added -e,--evaluate to run a script from command-line
• Scripting: Added Tool.toolBarActions property (#3318)
• Scripting: Added Tileset.columnCount property
• Scripting: Added ImageLayer.image property
• Scripting: Added access to selected terrain in tileset editor
• AutoMapping: Applying rules is now 10-30x faster
• AutoMapping: Explicit "regions" layers are no longer needed and have been deprecated (#1918)
• AutoMapping: "AutoMap While Drawing" no longer creates separate undo steps (#2166)
• AutoMapping: Custom tiles can now match "Empty", "Non-Empty" and "Other" tiles through a "MatchType" property (#3100)
• AutoMapping: A custom tile with "MatchType" set to "Negate" can be used instead of "inputnot" layers
• AutoMapping: Added built-in tileset with these custom rule tiles
• AutoMapping: Added a number of per-rule options which can be set using rectangle objects
• AutoMapping: Erase tiles by placing tiles with "MatchType" set to "Empty" on output layers (#3100)
• AutoMapping: Accumulate touched layers in AutoMap While Drawing (#3313)
• AutoMapping: Support map name filters in rules.txt (#3014)
• AutoMapping: Show relevant custom properties when a rules map is detected
• Optimized rendering of tinted layers by caching tinted images
• tmxrasterizer: Added options to hide certain layer types (#3343)
• Raised minimum supported Qt version from 5.6 to 5.12 (drops Windows XP support)
• Raised minimum C++ version to C++17
• Removed qmake project files (only Qbs supported now)
• macOS: Fixed layout of Custom Types Editor when using native style
• AppImage: Updated to Sentry 0.4.18
• Python plugin: Now built against Python 3.8 on Windows and Linux
• Updated Bulgarian, Czech, French and Russian translations