# Tiles not showing up in preview

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658 "2017-08-14T19:05:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![peterb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@peterb1](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/peterb1)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/1 "2017-08-14T19:05:34Z")

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hello a while back i had a collision problem which is now solved, i am having a strange new issue. i am placing tiles in my map, and they show up there, but when i go to preview the map they dont show up, nor do they show up in the game. it is strange since i already added some of these same tiles today and they worked fine. what could possibly be wrong?

thanks,

Peter B

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/2 "2017-09-13T20:30:44Z")

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Did you solve your issue in the meantime? Since this could be an issue with Tiled2Unity, if you still have it then maybe @Seanba can help you.

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**Author:** ![Seanba](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/seanba/32/1531_2.png) [@Seanba](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Seanba)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/3 "2017-09-13T20:57:45Z")

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Hi there. If tiles are not showing up in the preview then they won’t be exported to your Unity project either. That could be because you currently have that layer hidden in Tiled or that layer is using the `unity:ignore` custom property.

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**Author:** ![Anton\_Mr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Anton\_Mr](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Anton_Mr)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/4 "2018-05-08T08:04:18Z")

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I got the same problrm here. I’m a newbie at game making.  
When I starting 2d game tutorial and open tile palette . it show a black preview. But somehow I still can put add the new tile to the scene.  
 ![image](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex035/uploads/mapeditor/original/2X/5/59fd2007971422cc2447ad7d5904e61f25eeeba6.jpg)

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/5 "2018-05-08T08:51:33Z")

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@Anton_Mr Are you using Tiled or Tiled2Unity at all? I can’t tell from your screenshot. Hopefully @Seanba can help out here, because I do not have experience with Unity.

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**Author:** ![Anton\_Mr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Anton\_Mr](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Anton_Mr)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/6 "2018-05-08T09:00:24Z")

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it is unity. But am I asking at wrong web ? Because I thought this program is extention of unity.

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/7 "2018-05-08T09:15:03Z")

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> [@Anton\_Mr](#):
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> it is unity. But am I asking at wrong web ? Because I thought this program is extention of unity.

You’re asking on the forum for [Tiled](https://www.mapeditor.org/), an independent level editor for which there exist [several solutions for using its maps in Unity](http://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/reference/support-for-tmx-maps/#unity-3d), one of them being the [Tiled2Unity](http://www.seanba.com/tiled2unityhttp://www.seanba.com/tiled2unity) exporter. If you’re using a Unity level editor extension or the tile map functionality in Unity itself, then this is indeed the wrong forum to ask for help.

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**Author:** ![Anton\_Mr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Anton\_Mr](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Anton_Mr)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/8 "2018-05-08T10:29:29Z")

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@bjorn I see. thanks for the info.  
But , this forum look helpful for me to learn something about tiled that used for 2d game.  
so I will still around to learn

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiles-not-showing-up-in-preview/2658/9 "2018-05-08T10:48:10Z")

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> [@Anton\_Mr](#):
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> [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn) I see. thanks for the info.  
> But , this forum look helpful for me to learn something about tiled that used for 2d game.  
> so I will still around to learn

You’re welcome to stay and ask questions! All I meant to say was that you’re unlikely to get an answer here to the specific question you asked. 🙂