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SmartShape2D - Resources

Shape Materials

Shape materials provide all the texture and collision information needed by the SmartShape nodes. Once a shape material is defined, it can be easily reused by any number of SmartShape2D nodes.

• Edge Meta Materials
  • An array of resources of type SS2D_Material_Edge_Metadata
• Fill Textures
  • Used as the texture for the inside of the polygon for Closed Shapes
  • Currently, only the first texture can be used, multiple textures may be supported at a later date
• Normal Textures
  • In Godot 4, you can set normal textures with CanvasTexture resource.
• Fill Texture Z Index
  • Each Edge Meta Material has a ZIndex indicating which edges are drawn first
  • This sets the ZIndex for the fill texture
  • This allows the user to draw the fill texture in front of some edges or behind others
• Fill Mesh Offset
  • The Offset of the Fill Mesh
  • Can be used to grow / shrink the fill mesh
• Render Offset
  • Every edge in the shape will be offset by this amount
• Weld
  • Whether or not to weld the last quad of an edge with the first quad of the next edge

Edge Meta Material

An Edge Meta Material doesn't contain the actual textures used to render an edge like Edge Material does. Instead, this resource contains a single Edge Material and describes how and when to render the edge.

• Normal Range
  • The angles at which an edge is allowed to be rendered
• Weld
  • Whether or not to weld the quads in this edge
• Render
  • Whether or not this edge is visible
• Z Index
  • Dictates the order in which edges are drawn
• Offset
  • Offset of the edge
  • Can use a positive or negative value to draw the edges closer or further from the shape

Normal Range

The Normal Range indicates when a texture should be rendered. Each shape will compare the Surface Normal of an edge to the Normal Range in each Edge Meta Material. If the edge's Normal is inside a Meta Material's Normal Range, the Meta Material's Edge Material is rendered.

• A Normal Range is specified in Degrees
  • If the normal range is 0 - 360 or 0 - 0, any angle is considered in range and the edge will always render
  • Angle "0" is Facing directly Right
  • Angle "90" is Facing directly Up
  • Angle "180" is Facing directly Left
  • Angle "270" is Facing directly Down

Edge Material

The actual textures used to define an edge

Textures

• The primary textures used for the edge
• At least one texture must be defined
• Example:

Taper Textures

These textures will be used as the first or last quad in an edge. They're named "Taper Textures" because the purpose is to show the edge "tapering off"

• Textures_Taper_Left is the first quad in an edge
  • Example:
• Textures_Taper_Right is the final quad in an edge
  • Example:

Corner Textures

These textures will be used when the edge forms a sharp corner (80 degrees - 100 degrees) These are used because corners can look warped when using only regular textures

• Texture_Corner_Inner is used when the corner forms an inner corner
  • Example:
• Texture_Corner_Outer is used when the corner forms an outer angle
  • Example:

Normal Texture and Repeat

To use normal textures, you can create a CanvasTexture resource in the inspector on any property, that allows to set a texture. There you can assign your texture and your normal texture, as well as set those to repeat.

Repeat Textures

See previous section.

Fit Mode

Most likely, the textures you use will not perfectly fit the polygon. This setting allows you to determine how SmartShape will rectify this.

Differt options may look better or worse depending on the art-style.

• Sqush and Stretch
  • Texture will be mutated
  • Either slightly squished or stretched to fit the polygon
• Crop
  • Texture will not be mutated
  • Texture will simply be cropped when changing from one texture to the next