[General] Tileset increase

[Spencer Omega]

I'm hoping this hasn't been over done too many times but I am looking for a way to increase the number of terrain tiles I can use on a map. I have the Sharp editor DL'd but Idk much about it.

 

[A]mun]

Well, you gotta make due with 16 individual tiles.

You can circumvent this limitation somewhat by using multitiles like: EpicRPGTileset_by67chrome.blp.

 

[Spencer Omega]

Thanks I'm going to try that.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The 16 tile limit is purely because the game only allocates 4 bits per terrain node for tile variance. The engine actually supports more than 16 tiles just one cannot ever use them as overflow in the 4 bit field causes other tile types to be used. Fixing this is likely a non-trivial change, especially with backwards compatibility, and will degrade performance due to having to allocate at least another 2 bytes per terrain node.

Ironically it also allocates 4 bytes for cliff type as well. However only the first 2 values function correctly with all others resulting in buggy cliff meshes.