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[Banana Pudding]

Is there a tutorial that walks you through creating your own tiles, importing them into ZC and then adding attributes to them in the editor?

[Mitchfork]

First, some clarification - Tiles refer to raw graphics.  Combos refer to a tile plus gameplay types, attributes, solidity, and flags.  When you place a 16x16 block on a screen, you are placing a combo, not a tile.

 

If you go to Quest > Graphics > Tiles, this will open the tile table for the quest. If you right click any of these and select Edit (or hit the E key) you can manually edit tile graphics.  This is okay for small edits and simple tiles, but for more complicated graphics, you're going to want to import something.  Clicking Grab at the bottom of the tile page (or hit the G key) will bring up the tile grabber. From here you can navigate to any image file and import the graphics.

 

Note that images have a palette, and ZC has a palette.  If these don't match, the tiles won't look right.  You can manually recolor them after importing, or use the Recolor button at the bottom of the tile grabber to let ZC try to find best match colors.  Sometimes this destroys color depth, so you'll have to play around with it.

 

(If you use a dedicated pixel art tool like Aseprite or GraphicsGale, you can adjust the palette structure on the image more easily to match what you have in ZC, which I would recommend if you're doing a lot of scratch tile drawing).

If you go to Quest > Graphics > Combos, this will open the combo table for the quest.  If you right click any of these and select Edit (or hit the E key), this will being up all of the options that combos have.
 

There's a lot of options in the tabs, many of which are context depending on the combo type you select.  In order to change its graphic, click the square under Tile.
 
(Alternate way to access the tile/combo tables: On the right hand side of the screen is one or more combo lists. You can right click any of the combos to select Edit Combo (skipping opening the combo page), Open Combo Page (which will immediately jump to the page where that combo is), or Open Tile Page (which will immediately jump to the page where that combo's tile is).)

[Banana Pudding]

Alright, thank you for the in-depth tips.  I will go ahead and try this and see what I can do.