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Texture atlas + color overlay or just a larger texture atlas?
Sorry for the vague question.
I am currently building a tile-based level editor for myself and there's two ways I have been considering when it comes to texturing the world.
The use of a texture atlas that contains all the textures and the necessary color variations (Ex. a plank floor might come in 3 different colors)
The use of a smaller texture atlas that contains only the "model" of a texture (Such as the plank floor from above but only one, color-free version) combined with a separate color overlay texture.
My question: is there any advantages and/or disadvantages in either system when it comes to efficiency? I understand that there are a lot of varying factors so for the sake of the question: the world would be big and consists of many different tiles.
As I see it, the first option could potentially grow into extreme sizes while the latter is more compact but requires an additional texture to give each tile a color.
There is a third way to do things, which replicates the way old games did it: Have one indexed texture atlat but make it accept different palettes.
i would suggest 1 atlas and change the color by code or use cherno solution
