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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darraketh" data-source="post: 335573" data-attributes="member: 847">Coastal tile problem!I've created a matrix depicting all possible configurations of a coastline hex tile.  If there were one variation of each type there would be a total of 30 tiles. If for the sake of variety and to at least avoid a possible monotonous alternating pattern, a minimum of three variations of each hex tile type were created we'd have 90 tiles! This doesn't even address more that one terrain type.Discounting hills, mountains, deserts and forests I have fourteen tiles in my set that could use the coastal treatment.  With three variations each we'd have 1,260 tiles.This predicament is a graphic representation of the limitations of the program and the route we've taken to depict coastlines. I don't want to give up the coastal environment that this type of tile represents.  On the other hand I don't want to be bogged down with so many tiles.  My suggestion is to make the water tile the overlay as opposed to a land tile.Currently I have four water tiles but this can be reduced to two or three.  If I reduce the water tiles to two, a deep and a shallow tile, we can get by with 90 coastline tiles based on the shallow water hex tile. This approach will give us the needed three variations for each coastal configuration.La Bete's current set of coastal tiles just happens to number 90 tiles.Of course we can make the coastal tiles all straight lines and this would reduce the number needed to 30 but this approach wouldn't add anything in the way of beauty.  With 90 tiles we could address the three shallowest water tiles.Another suggestion is to group the tiles according to the matrix I have here but with similar variations following each other. In other words there would be three variations of the top left tile in the matrix appearing in the palette followed by three variations of the next tile grouped together.  I feel this approach will render a consistent pattern in the palette that can be easily scanned.Comments?  Ah which way should we go, which way should we go?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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