Oriented Brushes

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General purpose brush type that can be used to paint singular objectsor automatically orienting platforms, walls, etc. Oriented brushes automatically choose and paint tiles based upon the surrounding tiles.

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• What is an Orientation
  The orientation of a tile is defined by the tiles that surround it which allows oriented brushes to make automatic selections.

• Variation Weights
  Chance of variations being picked when painting with randomization can be adjusted using weight slider shown immediately below variation preview in oriented brush designer.

• Coalesce Mode
  The way in which tiles join with one another can be controlled by altering the way in which they coalesce.

• Fallback Orientation
  Default orientation is assumed when actual orientation of tile is not defined within brush (or next best was not matched). The default orientation is also used to generate preview for brush.

• Creating an Oriented Brush
  Oriented brushes can be created using the create brush window.

• Define or Find Orientation
  New orientations can be defined by specifying the expected neighboring tiles by toggling them green or white. The same interface can also be used to quickly find existing orientations which is useful when working with brushes which have lots of them.

• Set Default Orientation
  Each oriented brush has a default orientation which is marked using the radio button towards the left.

• Remove Orientation
  Unwanted orientations can be removed by clicking the small cross button shown to right of 3x3 icon.

• Add Variation
  Many variations can be added to each orientation of an oriented brush when desired. There are two kinds of variation; prefabs and nestable brushes. When it comes to nestable brushes the most frequently used kind are tileset brushes.

• Remove Variation
  Tile variations can be removed from an orientation by clicking the small cross button using the brush designer.

• Looking up a Variation
  This section explains how to quickly lookup a tile prefab or edit a nested brush when using the brush designer, which can be a huge time saver when continously switching to and fro between an oriented brush and its nested brushes.

• Reorder Variation
  Variations can be reordered by dragging them around one another or even across to another orientation.

• Copy Variation
  A variation can be effortlessly copied to another orientation by holding the Ctrl key whilst dragging it.

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