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Create a Drawing

Let's start by creating a tile drawing to place on your map.

From the Draw tab in the dashboard, you can create a new drawing.

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New drawing icon

You can also create a new drawing and/or change the canvas size by pressing the icon in the top right corner.

Drawing Tools

Color Palette

Open the color picker by clicking on the color swatch. You can choose from a variety of colors.

Paint Bucket

Select the paint bucket tool to fill the canvas with the selected color.

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Pressing the paint bucket icon will toggle between the paint bucket and brush tools

Brush

Select the color palette again and choose a different color.

I chose to draw some grass to use as ground tiles.

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Remember to toggle the paint bucket tool off by clicking on the icon

Save Drawing

Press the save icon, pick a name for your drawing, and press Save.

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Use the dropdown to select the type of drawing you are saving

For now, we will save it as a Tile

Eraser

Select the eraser tool to erase pixels from the canvas.

Erase Drawing

Press the trash icon to erase the entire drawing.

This does not delete the drawing but clears the canvas.

Undo

Press the undo icon to undo the last action.

Redo

Press the redo icon to redo the last action.

Grid

Press the grid icon to toggle the grid on and off.