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Tilemap With Irregular Lines
I'm looking at the game Arietta of Spirits, and I see all these irregular lines and shapes in the ground tilemaps (roads, paths, grass etc...). I've uploaded a picture of one small example. My question is around procedure in making these (or at least your best guess). Is there some magic in getting these irregular paths/lines/shapes generated throughout the entire game to use in tilemaps, or is this just a much more sophisticated tileset with a heck of a lot of hard work put into it. The lines I'm specifically referring to here is the border line between the light and dark grass.
Thanks
I don't think there is any kind of "random edge generation" going on... simply put - analyze the image for a while and you see similarities. Around the center, there is a blob down right from grass patch. On its right upper edge there are 2 pixels. You see this same corner piece down right from it. And also right from it.
I think this is nothing more or less than quality tileset for blobtiling with good amount of artistic skill. Best way to detect this is probably to get a larger screenshot of game, and overlay a grid over it. Then try to match grid size so that certain tiles each fit inside a grid cell. That way you can see if they are using the same tiles, if you cannot pick them from the image.
New here, and didn't even notice this comment. I think you're exactly right. As I suspected, no magic, just hard work. Thanks for the advice.
I did find this deviant art tutorial that shows how these types of organic-looking tilesets are created (painstakingly so). This might be one procedure, other than using the more powerful method above.
It seems like there could be some random line drawing algorithm there. This StackOverflow post asks about making such and the top answer seems to provide nice simple code for it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6169055/generating-random-points-to-build-a-procedural-line
Thanks! I could see with some noise in between the dots, you could get a really awesome effect.
