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Tile Actor Spawner

The tile actor spawner is a feature in this plugin to allow spawning any kind of UE Actor in a specified tile. This will happen whenever a Tile Map Actor or a Tile World Actor is added into a level while having one or more Tiles configured to spawn the actors.

1.- In Tiled, open the Tile Set that contains the desired tile that will be used to spawn a UE Actor.

Note: I would recommend creating a “Spawner” Tile Set where you have all the tiles that spawn UE Actors in one place.

2.- Select the desired Tile and you can either:

• Add ActorSpawnerID as a string, ActorSpawnerOffsetX as a float, ActorSpawnerOffsetY as a float and ActorSpawnerOffsetZ as a float, for the custom properties of the desired tile.

• If you have the predefined Custom Properties, you can set the class to Tile and you will see all the available custom properties.

3.- In the ActorSpawnerID custom property you will have to specify a unique string ID that will be used to pair this tile with the actor to spawn in UE.

4.- In the ActorSpawnerOffsetX, ActorSpawnerOffsetY and ActorSpawnerOffsetZ, you can specify an optional offset from the center of the tile that will be used to spawn the UE Actor.

5.- Once all your changes are done, save the Tile Set and place the new tiles in any of your Tile Maps and save it.

6.- In UE, go to Project Settings > Tiled Integration > Tile Actor Spawner. In there you can add as many tile actor spawners as you wish just by clicking on the “+” button to add a new element and specifying the ID as the unique ID you set on step 3 and then a reference to the actor blueprint you would like to spawn.

Note: The IDs have to be unique between all the Tile Actor Spawners created.

7.- Finally, import/reimport the Tile Set modified in step 1 as well as the Tile Map modified in step 5. If your Tile Map was already in a level, you should see the new actors being spawned, if not, they will spawn when you add the Tile Map or Tile World into the level.