Tiles
Tiles are placed at the bottom elevation set through the Levels module. While background tiles are rendered as well it's highly suggested that you instead use a single background image or you will have popping and flickering issues. The module DF Architect has an option to merge all your background tiles and background image into a single image.
For props or entire 3D Maps, use the 3D Tiles!
To place a 3D Tile, open the filepicker while in 3D Mode and in the Tiles Layer. The file picker will now show 3D Files instead of 2D Images. Drag and drop a file from the filepicker to the scene to create a 3D Tile, 3D Canvas will give your tile a placeholder 2D Image as well, required for Levels to adjust visibility when needed and to make it clear that you have 3D Tiles on the map, you can change this placeholder image but it's not suggested to leave it Blank.
If you wish to see 3D Models previews in the file picker, you will need the Filepicker+ and 3D Portraits Modules (Check the home page for the Recomended Modules).
Once a Tile is on the scene you can select it and use the quick tile editor controls to manipulate the tile. All the shortcuts are documented in the Controls Wiki Page.
The 3D Tab contains all the settings to manipulate the tile manually through numbers, although most of these settings are self explanatory, we will focus on some that could be confusing:
This option tells 3D Canvas if the tile should be included in collision calculations, for example, if one of your tiles represents Water, you would need to disable this option.
This will change how the tile is displayed:
- Fit: Will fit the 3D Model inside the tile bounds, preserving proportions.
- Stretch: Will stretch the 3D Model to fill the box defined by the tile.
- Repeat: Will make multiple copies of this tile, "tiling" it inside the tile bounds.
This option will set the Gap between the repeated 3D Models. Will only work with Repeat Fill Type
All this options will only affect the Repeat Fill Type
The seed used to generate the randomization, you can change this seed to some arbitrary characters if you want to re randomize the tile.
IMPORTANT: For this to work, first enable the "Mirror Levels Tile Visibility" in the 3D Tab in your Scene Configuration.
If you wish to make a multilevel 3D Map, where the 3D Objects above you are not visible, Open the Levels UI and define the amount of levels you wish, then, select a level. A Magenta colored Plane will appear, to indicate where you are building, start draging and dropping 3D Object onto that plane to build on that level, repeat for the other levels. If you now explore the map with a token selected, you will see that Objects above you will be hidden.
3D Canvas supports MATT click and double click events on tiles