Designer - Tile Masking for Atlas?

divide · Mar 2019

Hi everyone. I'm newish to Designer and trying to recreate some tile shapes for an atlas but can't find any masking solutions to do this.

Also tried importing b/w bitmaps to maybe plug as alphas but couldn't figure that out either.

Any suggestions?

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/6d/l3yi3ixt1h6c.jpg

Soviet · Mar 2019

So... Are you trying to achieve the whole thing like in the picture or just the finished, filled square, like in "1111" squares?

divide · Mar 2019

Hi @soviet - Trying to achieve the whole thing.

I'm basically asking how to take "1111" and re-purpose it into the rest of those shapes...

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ur/z9vop5moocvf.jpg

Soviet · Mar 2019

I'm still not sure if this is what you mean, but here's what I did just by rotating a square:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/hx/chvl9onzh8kb.jpg

Let me know if you need the .sbs file.

m_asher · Mar 2019

Echoing Soviet, the basic idea is fairly simple — it's just a matter of rotating and translating a shape to use as a mask. Are you hitting a wall with making a full-material solution?

poopipe · Mar 2019

A full material solution is easy, just tie a bunch of tile samplers to the same input parameters in a subgraph.

Making the tiles is easy. Simple shapes and transforms will do fine for masking

You can change the order the tiles appear in the tile sampler if you need them arranged in a specific way

The problem is the number of tiles you need - I forget the maximum allowed through a tile sampler but I dont think it's as many as 16.

Clark Coots · Mar 2019

Max for Tile Sampler is 6 I think, it is possible to make an FX-Map with.... a lot more, I've done up to 76 inputs, if you go that route you'd potentially need some knowledge on FX Maps and functions.

Designer - Tile Masking for Atlas?

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