Graphic tint on terrain

[evildogbot100]

Hello, is it possible to use tint for terrain graphics? To reduce atlas as well as file size.

[posila]

Hello, is it possible to use tint for terrain graphics? To reduce atlas as well as file size.

Hi, currently it is not possible, because I encoded coordinates of alpha masks into color channel.
But it will be possible sometime in future (hopefully 0.17). I would like to have even more complex color transformations for terrain graphics then just tint, but that will be driven mainly by requirements from our artists.

[evildogbot100]

How about decoratives?

[posila]

Decoratives can be tinted through regular "tint" property in sprite definition in prototype.

[Earendel]

Hello, is it possible to use tint for terrain graphics? To reduce atlas as well as file size.

Hi, currently it is not possible, because I encoded coordinates of alpha masks into color channel.
But it will be possible sometime in future (hopefully 0.17). I would like to have even more complex color transformations for terrain graphics then just tint, but that will be driven mainly by requirements from our artists.

I've started hitting the 255 tile limit in the alien biomes mod. If tile tints, or whatever the recoloring is, could be influenced by noise layers or dimensions, that would be an amazing benefit because the color changes could have smooth transitions over a large distances without increasing the number of tiles required for any tile color variations. It would be great if that were also a lua API tile property so things pollution could affect tile color over time.