Add a TileMapTexture resource to procedurally generate a texture from a tilemap

[Shadowblitz16]

Describe the project you are working on

A mario game which I will provide a editor where users can draw there own graphics.

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

I need the ability to use tiles from a tileset in a animated sprite.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Basically it would be something akin to old school metatiles, which are a 2d map of tiles.
It would allow us to place, rotate, and flip tiles onto a grid and then use that grid in a sprite2D or a AnimatedSprite2D node, or really anything that uses a texture.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

It would probably be simular to how tilemap works, but your would be generating a texture from it.

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

It would be used in tile based games that try to emulate old school graphics, and I'm sure you could use a tilemap as a viewport and then get the texture, but that requires a lot of setup just for a single sprite.
This would make working with this wort of thing easier.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

Tileset and Tilemap are already part of core.
This compliments them.

[Shadowblitz16]

@Calinou it's not procedural generation, it's just a map of a bunch of tiles to a texture.
Unless by procedural generation you mean generate the backing texture when it's used?