# Is it possible to create metadata for individual tiles?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405 "2020-03-18T17:11:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![FireSide\_01](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/fireside_01/32/2672_2.png) [@FireSide\_01](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/FireSide_01)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405/1 "2020-03-18T17:11:10Z")

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I see that you can do that on objects, but I don’t see anything for tiles

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**Author:** ![eishiya](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/eishiya/32/2534_2.png) [@eishiya](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/eishiya)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405/2 "2020-03-18T19:49:41Z")

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For individual tiles in a tileset: Yes, you can set Custom Properties in the tileset editor view.  
For individual tiles in a map: No, you have to use Objects or Tile Objects for that.

I don’t know what you need this for, but there’s a very good chance that one of these three options will be a good fit for it.

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**Author:** ![FireSide\_01](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/fireside_01/32/2672_2.png) [@FireSide\_01](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/FireSide_01)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405/3 "2020-03-18T20:06:31Z")

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I’m trying to set up collision data for individual tiles in a map. So it seems like I can’t do that. What’s a tile object?

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**Author:** ![eishiya](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/eishiya/32/2534_2.png) [@eishiya](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/eishiya)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405/4 "2020-03-18T20:31:09Z")

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Tile Objects are Objects that use a tile as their image.

You can assign collision data to tiles in your tileset. If your collision data isn’t 1:1 with tiles (e.g. the same tile may have different collision in different places), you could do something like this, with a special set of tiles representing collision on a separate layer:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/mapeditor/original/2X/f/fe12b2f0b258dd76a5c9efaa32985d09b29a58bb.png)

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**Author:** ![FireSide\_01](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/fireside_01/32/2672_2.png) [@FireSide\_01](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/FireSide_01)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/is-it-possible-to-create-metadata-for-individual-tiles/4405/5 "2020-03-18T20:42:47Z")

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Okay, thank you.