Tint Brushes - how do they work?

[JuliuszK]

Hi,
I can't seem to see any UI controls for the Tint Brush. I saw on a Robodash demo video, that there was a color and blend parameter displayed on the Tilemap Pallette UI. I just don't see them.
The brush itself seems to work - it paints white colour on tiles with manually modified colour.

I'm using Unity 2018.2.1f1.
I tried the 2d-techdemos, but it's not working there neither. BTW. upon opening it says the project has been saved with Unity 2017.2, despite readme saying it's been saved with 2018.2....

Also - how do you setup the TintBrush Smooth? There's no example scene in the 2d-techdemos. No documentation anywhere. I have no idea what to do with the shader file - I tried applying it to a Tilemap Renderer, but it's not being recognized as a valid shader.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, as I've already spent some time trying to figure out stuff with no luck.

Thanks,
J.

[cconlan]

@ChuanXin-Unity seconding a request for documentation and an example scene for TintBrushSmooth. We've wanted it ever since seeing it in action in the Robodash demo but have always resorted to using other workarounds.

Please make it happen!

[ChuanXin-Unity]

Hi, I have updated 2d-techdemos with an example scene for TintBrushSmooth on the master branch.

There is some setup to be able to use this brush:

• Create a new material using TintedTilemap.shader (Custom/TintedTilemap)
• Assign this material to the TilemapRenderer
• Add the TintTextureGenerator component to the Grid of the Tilemap.
• Now you can start tinting the Tiles in the Tilemap.

The TintTextureGenerator component generates a Tint texture which is used by the TintedTilemap shader to blend the Tint and the Color of the Sprites used. If you have your own shader/s for the Tilemap, you can try merging the code in from the TintedTilemap shader to your shader/s.

[cconlan]

Fantastic, thanks so much!

[JuliuszK]

Thanks very much for this extra demo and info!