How to Combine Tilesets in RPG Maker XP By ChaosSpartan28

In this tutorial I will teach you how to combine two tilesets.  Lets start off by opening a project in RPG Maker XP (any version). You can make a new game or open an existing one.

Now go to Tools and then Resource Manager. Select the category “Graphics/Tilesets”

  

 

For this tutorial we will be using the “001-Grassland01” and the “004-Mountain01” tilesets. Now select them (one at a time) and click export. Let’s export it to the desktop into a new folder and lets call it “Tilesets.”  You should have these two files in the folder.

 

 Now that we have those files, lets open up our tileset template in paint. (Included in this tutorial file)

 

Open both the “001-Grassland01” and the “004-Mountain01” file in paint.  If you haven’t noticed the small tiles are found at the top of each set.  

 

 

So what we will do is select the top portion of each tileset and paste it onto our template. Minor edits may need to be done to extract it so select the portion with the small tiles from both tilesets and lets open a new paint file and paste them there.

 

Do you notice that some tiles repeat? We don’t want to have those in the tileset because it’s very unnecessary and would just take up space. So what we are going to do is erase the duplicate tiles and any extra tile pieces that were accidently extracted.

Before

 

After

Now select all of it (Select + A) and copy it to the template. Align it to the top right corner so we can use all of the space.

 

You may notice small portions of the template boxes you pasted over showing. We don’t wont this, so to get rid of it we will simply use the “Pick Color” tool, select the blue green fill space color, now select the “Fill with Color” tool, and color in the left over of the boxes. (Not the entire template, just the stuff sticking out from under.)

Before

After

Now we will add the rest of the tilesets. We will need to edit each tileset again but this time we will extract the larger tiles.

 

Select the larger tiles, you may accidently select some of the other tiles but that’s fine, we can edit that. Open a new paint file or erase the previous one we used.  Copy the larger tiles there.