An unconventional approach to make TILES in games

[@gameshenanigans]

Love it! Now I want to figure out how to do this for a personal project I've been brewing!

[@vectorgamedev]

Can't wait to see it! 👀

[@melpeslier]

Thanks forn the share. The red is for texture mapping, the blue for a shadow gradient, the green for the shadow line and the black for the outline color

[@vectorgamedev]

Yeah! great tldw 😁

[@distro3928]

Great video. Keep it up man, I'm excited to see the game release and play it

[@vectorgamedev]

Thanks!! 😃

[@SaadTheGlad]

This looks so cool, keep it up!

[@DDPiex]

Great video❤

[@vectorgamedev]

Thank you!! 😁

[@Aarimous]

Nice video, I think I might use something like this in my game!

[@melpeslier]

Could you explain a bit how your drawing the other textures as part of the tiles ? I would love to understand the logic here 😁 I looked at stencil buffer and passes, but I don't have thoses in godot4. But I will make it somehow, that's why your logic here would be very helpfull !

[@vectorgamedev]

Sure thing! I simply add them on top of each other using Unity shadergraph - also I make sure that I use global UVs instead of object UVs And to add that as part of the tile I use the red color channel of the original tile There's also a noise that I control with a variable and it's applied to the red color channel as well Let me know if that helps!

[@melpeslier]

@@vectorgamedev so you have a material on the other textures, or on the tiles one ? And how do you get them ? By the way I did it, but in Godot. So what I'm doing is, first I draw the textures I want (in the top of the scene tree) then I make them use a shader ( that turn there black part into rgb(0,0,1) so it's still black bit not for computer, Then, either you have your working space black, but ... so I just draw some black textures to act as the black mask, I SAVE this screen texture using backbuffers I put all I want in the scene , now order don't matter, and here I have my tiles, and when it's pure black I ignore it, else I draw the textures !

[@melpeslier]

@@vectorgamedev I will share it to you once I'm done ! Also, I will make it apply to custom polygons too ! I'll share you this 👌

[@vectorgamedev]

Its just 1 material for the tiles! Oh wow that's awesome!! Would love to see it!!