
144 Pixel Art for Game Developers
direction. The nal outcome can be very lovely, especially if you take lots of
time to really esh out each tile (which I did not). The issue is that I want to
be far more lazy than the slice method allows. Instead, let us rebuild these
grass transitions using only three tiles.
We’ll start the three-tile method by creating a section of nine tiles and
outlining only two tiles as shown in FigureE.. It’s important that the line
on the top tile divides it in half fairly evenly. This is so that when the tile is
ipped, it still aligns properly with the corner tile.
In Figure E., I’ve colored the line a dark green ...