--- title: "Phaser Editor v4.6.0 Released" subtitle: "This brand new version includes a powerful built-in Tilemap Editor." date: 2024-11-08T12:48:00.000Z category: news url: https://phaser.io/news/2024/11/phaser-editor-v460-released site: Phaser - https://phaser.io copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved. --- # Phaser Editor v4.6.0 Released *This brand new version includes a powerful built-in Tilemap Editor.* Available for immediate download is Phaser Editor v4.6.0. This introduces a long-awaited and powerful feature: A built-in Tilemap Editor. The new Tilemap tools are directly integrated into the Scene Editor, allowing you to combine Tilemap Layers together with Game Object layers simply and effectively. This short video highlights the Tilemap Editor in action: This is the first version of the Tilemap Editor, and we focused on implementing the most commonly used functionality first. We consider it a great step forward. Many users will now be able to use this tool instead of dealing with external software and file formats. Here are some of the advantages of using our tilemap editor: - You can use assets already defined in the game, such as images and sprite sheets, to create tilesets for your map. - When you create a tileset based on a sprite sheet, the tileset will inherit the properties from the sprite sheet, such as tile width, height, spacing, and margin. This also makes it easier for tilemaps to use spritesheets and create prefabs and sprites using the same asset settings. - You can create, edit, resize, and delete tilemap layers directly from the scene editor. - You no longer need workarounds - like parsing specific tiles or data layers - to create sprites or any other objects since you can now directly use the scene editor to do so, so you'll have sophisticated resources like prefabs, user components, and script nodes at your fingertips, in addition to the immediate feedback that Phaser provides in the scene editor. Please see our [updated documentation](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/scene-editor/game-objects/editable-tilemap-object) for a guide on learning this powerful new tool. ### Other changes Version 4.6.0 also includes the following updates: * [#44](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser-editor-issues/issues/44) Adds sprite animation support to ArcadeSprite objects. * [#46](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser-editor-issues/issues/46) Adds resolution property to the Text object. * [#43](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser-editor-issues/issues/43) Updates all help links to the new help website. ### What's next? We could still add features to the Tilemap Editor, such as data migration tools. However, you can have your say here: If you like it and want to see more advanced features, please let us know using the built-in Chat system within the Phaser Editor. All current subscribers of Phaser Editor can download it immediately from your [User Account](https://phaser.io/account/downloads). 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