How do I reuse the same tilemap on a different level?

I must be stupid. I know there has to be away to reuse the same tilemap to built a different level, but for the life of me I can't figure out how.

My game is a maze. I create every level by hand (it's relaxing). I don't want to upload the same tilemap 500 times.

How do I reuse the tilemap for a different level?

Thanks.

You save tilemap tile layout in a json format, then load it again later.

You save tilemap tile layout in a json format, then load it again later.

Ah what?

You wouldn't happen to know of a very specific video tutorial that shows how to do that, would you?

I'm willing to search for it, but I'm not sure what it would look like if I find it.

I'll just explain it here :

Add a global string variable and set it to tilemap.tilesJSON

The variable is then the positional data for the tilemap.

Then later on for tilemap you can use the action 'load' and use the variable

You can also use the download action to make an external file of the tilesJSON information if that's useful for the game

Hello,

Thank you for that, but I don't understand much of it.

I assume by 'global string variable' you mean to create a global variable and make it text and not a number. But after that, I'm lost.

I've been Googling, trying to figure out what you mean by the rest, but I'm not getting it.

Is there a step by step how to?

I need to be able to see the tilemap so I can manually drag & drop the bits to create each level.

The second image doesn't seem to show a tilemap placed in the layout or selected. Usually if you do that in another layout it has the same tileset image loaded with it because it's the same object.

Right, that's the problem. I want to use the same tilemap to build a different layout in the second level.

I create the new level (layout), click on the previously used tilemap, and the tilemap doesn't show up.

If I make them into sprites I can use them over and over again, but it's more difficult to create each level. So the question is, how do I reuse the tilemap in a different layout.

There has to be away, I can reuse sprites, there has to be away to reuse a tilemap.

OH!! That makes sense.

Thank you so much.

Sorry about the confusion. I'm new to C3 and don't know all the terminology yet.

Thanks again.

Alright no problem. And just to clarify my first few responses on here are in reference to saving or storing that data. So the tilemaps you are drawing to create the racetrack, you can save the tile positions as a string of data, that's what I originally thought you meant by reusing.