Tile Painting Controls

While painting tiles, there are various settings to control the painting process.

For more details on painting, see the Getting Started Tutorial

View Settings

Show Backfaces

Shortcut: Shift+Z

If set, then the editor only shows paintable faces that point away from the camera. Toggling this lets you paint every face without having to move the camera.

A hex tile, with front and back painting turned on.

Opacity

Shortcut: Shift+Q

Controls the opacity the paint overlay.

Show All

Shortcut: Shift+A

When enabled, the paint overlay is shown on every paintable tile in the scene. Otherwise, it's just selected tiles.

Show Always

Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+A

When enabled, the paint overlay is always shown. Otherwise, it's only shown while you have one of the Paint Modes active.

Paint settings

Paint Mode

When one of these buttons are depressed, it enables painting mode. Clicking on the scene will add some paint or edit the tile. Each mode operates differently.

Pencil Mode

Paints a single subface.

Edge Mode

Paints the subfaces along an edge.

Face Mode

Paints an entire face.

Vertex Mode

Paints the subfaces touching a corner.

Add Cube

This alters the shape of the tile. See the Big Tile for more details.

Remove Cube

This alters the shape of the tile. See the Big Tile for more details.

Paint Color

Sets the color to paint. The different colors and their meanings can be configured with a Palette.

The first entry, an eraser, means removing any paint.