Biggest Missing Feature and a Bug

prime31

Jan 2, 2014 at 6:26 am

The thing I miss most when using PE is the ability to set the blend mode of layers. Newbs like myself can lay down a black and white shading on one layer than color on a higher layer with a Multiply blend mode. Super useful technique for scrubs like myself ;) The bug that I am seeing with layers is that a tile seems to only contain a single layer. For example, to reproduce do the following: 1. paint a tile black 2. Create a new layer and paint it white 3. Use the tile tool to add the tile to the tilesets (command click). Notice that the tile only contains one layer.

Danik

Jan 2, 2014 at 1:02 pm

Blend modes should be pretty simple to implement, so I will try to do that for the next release.

The way tiles and layers work is by design (if I understand you correctly). Tiles can't have layers, rather layers have separate tile maps, so that you can have different tiles on background layers than in the foreground. This is a limitation, but I think having multiple layers in tiles would get very complicated.

Absurditure

Jan 2, 2014 at 8:54 pm

Blend modes would be pretty cool to play around with...

noio

Jan 7, 2014 at 12:57 pm

I love the way tiles work, it really makes my life easier at the moment. It allows me to make layered animations where one part of the animation stays the same (e.g. a walking character carrying a static object), it's brilliant!