Grounds and Borders

[Epono]

Could you give some pointers on how to set up the Ground Mode? I'd like to write some doc about it but i'm not quite there yet?

• What does the priority of a Ground Tile mean? Is it what is referenced by upper and lower special values for In and Out? If so, what if they have the same priority? The lower priority, the more it has a chance to be covered by surrounding tiles, unless specified otherwise in the In / Out properties?
• Do you have an example for Bottom Mode Borders? I can't really visualize in what way they're different from Lower Corners (according to this and this, they look quite similar)
• Speaking of, I think the representation of the corners is a bit misleading, it looks like the borders are on the outer edge of the tiles, not inner, I'll try to find a better way too show it.
• Why is there sometimes a missing "borderIn" or "borderOut" in the cdb file although it's show in the Level Editor?

Sorry for all these questions, I just think it's a shame to have such a nice tool and not that many people using it just because it's lacking a bit of explanations (which I'm planning on fixing, at least for the HaxeFlixel community for starters)

[ncannasse]

• priority is about soils level : for instance herbs go over stone which go over water, etc.
• upper/lower are references to what other soil is next to this
• bottom will just create bottom bordering, I think it was introduced for platformers ;)
• yes, ascii art is not the best way to express things clearly :)
• I haven't used borders for some time now, I am not sure what you mean by missing borderIn/borderOut