AI Tile Set Generator
Name the terrains and get the pieces a map is painted from, or ask for a battle map with its tactics laid in
“Make a tile set for my top-down farming game: grass, dirt path, water and stone, with the edge tiles where they meet.”
Each terrain has its fill, and the edges, corners, shorelines and transitions each sit in their own cell behind clean gutters, so the atlas slices on a grid.
“Make a tactical battle map for my strategy RPG: a river crossing with a stone bridge, a forest edge and a hill, on a square grid.”
The stone bridge is the chokepoint at the center, the pines on the left give cover and the terraced hill gives high ground, all on a square grid.
A level designer paints a shoreline and hits a gap: the set has water, grass and a straight bank, and nothing for the spot where the shore turns inward. Tile sets fail on the pieces nobody listed, and listing them is tedious work before anyone draws a pixel.
Type the terrains your game uses, such as grass, dirt path, water and stone for a farming game. Layer works out the piece list a map built from them needs and draws the whole set in one style on one grid.
Every terrain needs a fill. Every place two terrains meet needs straight edges, outer corners and inner corners, and the inner corner is the one that goes missing. The count climbs with each pair: four terrains that can all touch make six borders to cover. Name the pairs your maps use and the set is planned around them.
Cells on a fixed grid Every tile sits in its own cell with transparent gutters around it, so a grid slice cuts the sheet cleanly.
Room to grow Sand, snow or lava added later follows the style of the tiles you already have.
A tactical map works when the ground gives players decisions. Ask for a river crossing and the bridge becomes the chokepoint, the forest edge becomes cover and the hill becomes high ground. Push placeholder units around it before any unit art exists, and ask for a variant, such as a ford or a winter crossing, when the first map plays too narrow.
Slice the atlas in Unity's Tile Palette, Godot's TileSet or Tiled, then paint a test patch that hits every corner before building a level on it. For pixel art, set Filter Mode to Point in Unity or Nearest in Godot so the tiles stay sharp.
For the locations above ground, see game location design. For pixel art built to real console hardware, see pixel art.
Name a place in your game and get a painted location where every roof, prop and plant fits its landscape, its culture and what the place is for.
Period Levels and Props With Nothing Out of TimeBuild a 1980s mall arcade level or a set of 1950s diner props where every object belongs to its decade. Name the era and the place, and Layer fills the frame.
AI Pixel Art Generator for Real HardwareAI pixel art generator built to real hardware. Commodore 64, NES, Game Boy, Mega Drive: exact palettes, per-cell color rules and a deterministic grid snap.
They are designed to. Edges and corners are drawn to meet, and every tile sits in its own cell. Paint a test patch in your engine before you build a level on the set, because some joins can need a pixel or two of touch-up in your editor.
A fill for each terrain, the straight edges, the outer and inner corners, and transitions where two terrains meet, such as a dirt path into grass. Name the pairs your maps use, and the piece list is planned around them.
No. The atlas holds the pieces on a uniform grid, not in the order a particular autotile template expects, so you assign tiles to your engine's terrain rules yourself.
Yes. Name it, such as cozy pixel art, a retro console look or hand-painted. Without one, Layer picks a style that suits the game you describe.
Yes. Ask for sand, snow or lava in the same conversation, and the new tiles follow the style of the set you have.
Terrain that changes the fight. Layer puts a chokepoint, cover and high ground where they shape movement, so placeholder units have real choices from the first test. Ask for a ford instead of a bridge and you can compare both crossings.
Create a free Layer account and name the terrains your maps need.