WORKSPACE REFERENCE
Chipico separates drawing tiles, testing their placement, and defining animation or organization into three connected modes.
01 / TILE EDIT
Draw tiles with the pen, eraser, fill, replace color, line, curve, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, dither brush, and outline tools.
Rectangle, lasso, and magic-wand selections support copying, cutting, pasting, moving, and transforming pixels.
Use swatches, color swap, presets, image color extraction, and GPL palette saving.
Add, duplicate, merge, delete, clear, and show or hide layers to separate sketches, base art, and decorations.
02 / MAP EDIT
Select a tile in the navigator area, then place it on the map.
Separate ground, walls, decorations, and foreground elements.
Changes made while drawing become available in the placement palette.
Test repeated tiles and overlapping layers in a real map context.
03 / TILE STRUCTURE
Register tile frames, set their order and duration, then preview movement.
Groups organize tiles inside Chipico. In Godot export, their cells are handled as separate normal tiles.
Save the selected animation as WebP (recommended), GIF, or APNG with scale, timing, and loop settings.
Godot animation needs same-size frames arranged continuously from left to right. Read the requirements →
