Tileset tiles outside texture cannot be removed

[Lunarexxy]

Godot version

4.2.stable

System information

Godot v4.2.stable - Windows 10.0.19045 - Vulkan (Forward+) - dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (NVIDIA; 31.0.15.3667) - 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700KF @ 3.60GHz (16 Threads)

Issue description

It's possible for a tileset to end up with tiles outside of the texture when the Separation and Margin values are changed. This is fine temporarily, the user might want to tweak the settings until everything lines up.

But, if those tiles are stuck outside of the texture when the user is done, there is no quick way to remove them. The drop-down button for removing tiles outside the texture is always greyed out. The button above it does not affect invalid tiles. Tiles outside the texture cannot be selected or erased.

The only quick ways to remove the invalid tiles, are to:

• Remove the spritesheet from the tileset and try again, setting the proper values before creating any tiles.
• Reload the project and reopen the tileset. Errors are printed to Output about invalid tiles. The option to remove invalid tiles is now enabled, even though the invalid tiles do not show up visually. Click it, save, and the issue is resolved.

Possibly an issue with #77986 not detecting these invalid tiles, and enabling the drop-down button when atlas settings are changed.

Steps to reproduce

Assuming you're using the provided spritesheet: (spritesheet.zip)

• Create a spritesheet with separated tile sprites, or with margins around the edges
• Create a tileset, and pull the spritesheet into it
• Agree to the automatic tile creation (this can happen with manually created tiles too, this is just for speed)
• Set Margin and Separation X/Y values to 32

You will end up with invalid tiles outside the texture that cannot be removed, until the project is reloaded

Minimal reproduction project

A project reload detects the invalid tiles and hides (but does not actually remove) them, so a full project MRP is not really useful for clear, accurate reproduction.

You can use the spritesheet below for testing, though. The tiles are 64x64, with a 32px margin and 32px separation.

spritesheet.zip

[KoBeWi]

That button is active when there are tiles outside the texture (you should also be getting errors in the output). Seems like in this case these tiles are not detected as such.

[Lunarexxy]

Yup. The issue is that the button remains greyed out until a project reload. The Output errors will also only appear after a project reload has happened, when the tileset gets fully reloaded.

Presumably the fix is to just run the check for invalid tiles whenever margin/separation values are changed in the tileset atlas settings. I don't know if there are other settings that risk moving tiles to invalid positions, but if so, those should run the check too.

[Drachenbauer]

In my case it started working after test-run the project.

[ryanttb]

This is still an issue in Godot 4.4.

I can't click "Remove Tiles Outside the Texture" (likely because none are included) but I still get errors like this when I run:

E 0:00:01:040   create_tile: Cannot create tile. The tile is outside the texture or tiles are already present in the space the tile would cover.
E 0:00:01:040   has_alternative_tile: The TileSetAtlasSource atlas has no tile at (48, 0).

I can't select the orange squares in Select mode or use the Eraser tool on them in Setup.
They're just there as part of the grid but I can't get rid of them. I haven't changed the underlying png file at all.

1. Import .png file
2. Create TileMapLayer
3. Create TileSet
4. Drag png into TileSet tab
5. Update texture Region to 16x16 and spacing to 1,1 to match png file.

Closing the project and re-opening allowed me to click "Remove Tiles Outside the Texture" and finally clear the errors.

[tleadon]

Still getting this issue in 4.5. Solved it by closing the project and reopening it to show the formerly greyed out "Remove Tiles Outside the Texture" just like @ryanttb