Search and replace
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
A way to easy replace a tile (or tiles) by another. This feature does not exist at all.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
- you choose a source tile from any tileset
- you choose the layers from the tilemap to search through
- you can choose 'search' which shows on the map (with border) where the tiles are located (and the count).this to have an idea what will be replaced
- you can choose 'search and replace' which allows to choose a destination( replacement) tile which will replace the source tiles
I don't know if multiple tilesets can be used for source and/or destination. But all properties of a tile like collisions, ... Should be cloned in the destination tile.
This feature lets you edit existing maps quickly.
The feature could be expanded by allowing multiple source -> destinations operations happening after each other by entering a queue of them. An even more: queues could be saved to a file to load and apply to many maps (using the same tilesets).
In this way you could run replacement 'batches' on your maps to edit them in the same way.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Review the requested search, preview, and replacement workflow first; done would mean replacing selected source tiles across chosen layers while preserving tile properties, with the optional batching ideas clarified.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, game-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100