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I'm not really following the documentation on animating background maps.

Is it possible for me to place a tile in Weltmeister as a placeholder for an animation, and then in my code define/animate it?

You might find this thread helpful.

Here's an example of how to flag certain tiles to be animated:

var water = new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/water-animation.png', 16, 16 );
var flower = new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/flower-animation.png', 16, 16 );
var smoke = new ig.AnimationSheet( 'media/smoke-animation.png', 16, 16 );
ig.game.backgroundAnims = { 'media/map-tilesheet.png': {
      25: new ig.Animation( water, 0.15, [1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2] ) ,
      34: new ig.Animation( flower, 0.15, [1,1,2,2,1,1,2,4,3] ) ,
      11: new ig.Animation( smoke, 0.25, [3,4,3,4,5,6,5,6] ) 
} };

Assuming that the level you made uses the tilesheet "map-tilesheet.png", then tiles 25, 34, and 11 will be animated.

I do follow that, I guess what I'm wondering is if its possible to place those animations using Weltmeister, rather than entering in tile numbers manually in the code. So a visual way to place them, rather than looking up the tile # in Weltmeister, placing the tile via code, and not seeing it in the level editor (even if you only see frame one in Weltmeister where they reside that would be useful).

As far as I know, this is the only way to do it.

I tried creating an actual entity with an animation, that just stayed put and didn't do anything.. I could then place them in Weltmeister, but I couldn't figure out how to stop the items from falling to the floor (I tried to make some wall torches). I tried removing their gravity but that didn't work.

Removing their gravity should prevent them from falling.
Entity. gravityFactor should be set to 0.
If they still fall, maybe you're applying a positive y-velocity somewhere in your code.