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Currently my tiles are very strictly placed, there are wall tiles, and floor tiles, and they don't overlap at all.

What I want to achieve is to have my walls overlap my floors a bit.

So their inner edges doesn't have to be a stright line, but a free shape, with "transparent holes" which show the floor below. Resulting in a much better feeling.

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My current approach is to have multiple layers. One for the floor and wall (single) tiles), and one above this, which will have the overlapping, decorative parts of the walls.

But this methods feels slow and clunky:

For one wall tile I have to place 9 tiles/tileparts to make it look nice. (the tile itself plus the neighbours).

It would be better to place just one tile which got overlapping parts

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Have you considered layering multiple tilemaps on a single grid, so your wall tiles can draw over your floor? \$\endgroup\$
    – DMGregory ♦
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 14:30
  • \$\begingroup\$ @DMGregory that's my current approach, but I was wondering whether there is a better approach \$\endgroup\$
    – Tudvari
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 14:32
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    \$\begingroup\$ What specific drawback do you experience with your current approach, that you'd like help overcoming? ie. What would make an alternative "better" for your needs? \$\endgroup\$
    – DMGregory ♦
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 14:34
  • \$\begingroup\$ For one a wall tile I have to place 9 tiles/tileparts to make it look nice. (the tile itself plus the neighbours). It would be better to place just one tile which got overlapping parts. \$\endgroup\$
    – Tudvari
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 14:35
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    \$\begingroup\$ Excellent. Please add that detail to your question — it will help focus answers toward solving that specific issue. \$\endgroup\$
    – DMGregory ♦
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 14:36

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Use a set of tiles that are specific for the place where the walls meet.
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This is an example with 8 tiles. You can make more if you need.
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In this example you see tiles for dirt and grass and areas where the grass and the dirt meet. This image was taken from the Constract 2 Manual.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Yeah, this is my current approach, but I was wondering whether there is a better approach or not. \$\endgroup\$
    – Tudvari
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 14:33
  • \$\begingroup\$ Better is opinion based. :) There are many other things you can do to basically simply draw a randomized curvy line on the screen like using a mesh with some wavy noise but I think you should focus 100% on the gameplay and keep things stupidly simple. No offense to you. It is just as an indie you don't have a lot of resources so minute problems like this don't deserve your time. \$\endgroup\$
    – AturSams
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 17:32

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