Making different height levels in Gridmap more distinctive

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Godot Version

4.6.2

Question

I am looking for some recommendations regarding the visualisation here: I am using the grid map templates from the always awesome Kenny Platformer Kit.

I have noticed that when I am using the same tile items on different height levels it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between the different height levels

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Are there any tricks to add some kind of contour around the objects or any other recommendations how to improve this?

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Do you mean this?

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I can think of these:

  • You can make the higher tiles slightly darker than the lower one.
  • You can add border shaders.
  • You can change the texture on the tiles so that the borders are colored differently.
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Yes, exactly those edges!

I tried to add a shader to the object by adding a surface material override but that is overriding the material embedded in the mesh (showing as Surface 0).

Is there a way to still add the shader on top of it?

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I’m not very good with shaders so I’m not sure how to help with that. Maybe someone else can answer.

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You can use material overlay and apply a shader in multiply mode (or with a faint alpha) that outputs the albedo depending on world space y coordinate.

Also try enabling ambient occlusion in the world environment. Note that it may require a bit of parameter tweaking.