Question - Code Setting a tile's alpha in code

[Flip]

Is this possible? The only thing I can see is a reference to a compatibility function "layer_tile_alpha(tile_element_id,alpha)" which should not be used outside of compatibility scripts?

How can I adjust the opacity of a tile in code?

 

[Nocturne]

You can't currently unless you use your own shader to do it. I'm pretty sure this is a coming feature though...

 

[Flip]

Sounds complicated.. yes I read it was a coming feature but that was posted a year ago. Was hoping they got around to it and I've overlooked it. Not sure how this hasn't made it in yet seems important!

 

[SRJProd]

It does seem like a useful feature, I'd never really thought about it. Might look into it, see if I can think of a temporary/simple solution.

 

[Flip]

Useful is right. All games I've theorized could use it, and benefit from the performance of not having to entirely switch through and between tiles or as nocturne said create a custom shader.

 

[bbbower]

Yeah, been beating my head in trying to figure out why this wasn't working, turns out its not only removed but also a unicorn now. Writing a shader would work for some instances, but in particular, I was using the alpha of the tile prior to a shader to send data to the shader to move its position so it kind of kills the whole purpose and I now need to add every tile into a seperate asset and drop it in the level or rewrite the entire draw pipeline and manually read from my own tile mapping file and blah yeah ... i just gave up