Tiling sprites is a wonderful example of something that starts off relatively simple and then explodes into all kinds of interesting headaches.
In the beginning, you're looking up a set of UVs in a table indexed by some mask value.
In the end, you're debugging errors where one off by one error cascades into strange realms of indexing the wrong (unloaded) chunk with coordinates rolling over to positions that make no sense, looking up neighbours that look one way yet you end up drawing something completely different.
The suggest solution is an elegant and relatively common approach to what would otherwise be a naive series of nested 40+ if statements consisting of much swearing and sprite editing.
bulgur999•1h ago
The low tile count simply comes from applying the dual grid approach popularized (if not invented) by Oskar Stålberg to a specific 2d perspective where tiles can be generated through rotations and/or flips.
fredrikholm•1h ago
In the beginning, you're looking up a set of UVs in a table indexed by some mask value.
In the end, you're debugging errors where one off by one error cascades into strange realms of indexing the wrong (unloaded) chunk with coordinates rolling over to positions that make no sense, looking up neighbours that look one way yet you end up drawing something completely different.
The suggest solution is an elegant and relatively common approach to what would otherwise be a naive series of nested 40+ if statements consisting of much swearing and sprite editing.