IntermediatePublished on 21 septembre 2026

Import a tilemap made with Tiled

In this tutorial we will see how import in Godot a tilemap created with Tiled.

Prerequisites / Tools :

• Godot Engine

Written by Nicolas PerduSoftware engineer

Tilemap pokemon

The first things to have is a tilemap from a game.
In this tutorial I will pick the tilemap from pokemon red and make a small map from it with Tiled

You need to import this tiled map into Tiled and create a new map from it. After that create a Godot project to be able to export the map for Godot.

Create the Tilemap with Tiled

Here an example map I have done with Tiled:

After the map is created in the godot directory you need to open it with Godot, but the tilemap is currently depreciated:

Import the Tilemap with Godot

To convert the tilemap to the new Godot format you need to topen the TileMap menu:

Convert the Tilemap with Godot

After the layer extraction, you can delete the old tilemap:

Download of the full project

You need to download the file : tiled-godot.7z