Tilesets & Your Art

Infinihex paints with tile art you supply. A tileset is a folder of images: you point Infinihex at it, and it reads the tiles in place. Your art is never copied, hidden, or rewritten. The folder stays yours, exactly where you put it.

Adding a Tileset

Register a folder of tile images as a library, and its tiles appear in the Tilesets tab of the right rail, grouped by their subfolders. Click a tile to paint with it. You manage your registered folders in Settings → Libraries.

The order tilesets appear in the picker is set in Settings → Tileset Order.

Because tiles are referenced by a stable ID rather than by file path, a tileset keeps working even if you rename the folder or move it somewhere else on disk.

Organizing Your Tilesets

How you lay out your art on disk affects how smoothly it works in Infinihex, and how well the random generator can use it. A few practices pay off:

• Keep all your tilesets in one stable folder. Pick a home for your art (for example a single Tilesets folder) and keep your sets inside it. A stable location means fewer broken links later, and one place to point Infinihex at.
• Give each tileset its own containing folder. Keep one set's images together in their own folder rather than mixing several sets in the same directory. Each set stays self-contained, which keeps libraries tidy and makes a set easy to move, share, or remove on its own.
• Group tiles into subfolders by type. Within a set, put related tiles in subfolders named for what they are (for example forest, desert, hills, water). Infinihex shows tiles grouped by their subfolders, so this keeps the tile browser organized and makes it quick to find the right tile. It also matters for the brush's random mode. Many tilesets already come organized this way; if one doesn't, adding the subfolders yourself is worth the few minutes.

Example: subfolders and random mode. Random mode paints a random tile from the folder you are currently in. A folder of forest variations gives natural variation as you paint. A folder mixing forests, deserts, and water gives unrelated tiles in adjacent hexes. See Painting.

When Art Goes Missing

If you move or rename a tileset folder while a map still uses its tiles, Infinihex can't find those files. It handles this rather than failing silently:

• A warning banner appears noting how many tilesets (or libraries) are missing, and how many hexes won't render until they're relinked.
• Open the Locate missing tilesets dialog (or the per-library Locate… in Settings → Libraries) and point Infinihex at the folder's new location. The links repair and the hexes render again.

Nothing is lost in the meantime. The map still holds the tile references; they're just waiting to be reconnected to files.

Bundled Tiles

Infinihex ships with a bundled library used for the generator's default swatches. If it isn't available, you'll see a note directing you to Settings → Libraries to check it.

The bundled tiles are by Inkwell Ideas and are in the public domain.