canvas

[leaden grail]

dumb idea but what if canvas blocks
like microbricks that can be scaled but each individual unit can be painted individually!!1! meaning textures and stuff but with slightly better performance, this would be cool also because there would be no brick borders between colours yayy

[mellow prawn]

little confused, would these be like a mask on other bricks

[leaden grail]

no, like canvas bricks where each half-microbrick of it can be coloured individually

[mellow prawn]

i'm a little confused, it kinda sounds like you want to paint a section of a brick?

do you know what i mean by masking btw

functionally i feel like what you're asking for would be indistinguishable from a masking method https://imagekit.io/glossary/image-masking/

do you think you could like draw a mockup of what you're asking for?

cus i'm curious

and also still confused

[leaden grail]

not right now but uhh idk
its just like uhmm
a block that you can do pixel art on
one block, but its like a pixel art canvas
i really dont know how else to explain it its just a texturable brick

[mellow prawn]

ah ok

kinda like the paint wall in the tutorial

but it's a brick

the devs have been pretty adamant about not getting rid of bevels so i wonder what they'd think about this idea

it would be kinda neat

i would definitely abuse it to hell to the point that nothing i'm making looks like bricks anymore

which is why i've always sort of furthered the "realistic stickers" idea cus it'd force some creative limitations

[eager moth]

My first thought with this idea is the paintable signs from stormworks, they have once face where you can paint individual colors on, I think, an 8x8 grid. Although stormworks' blocks let you paint individual faces and even sub-regions of many bricks, so this wasn't a complicated feature for them to have added. Brickadia might be more tricky, especially in a way that keeps rendering fast

[compact raptor]

so basically like a grid of tiny microbricks? but as a single brick? seems sorta unnecesarry tbh

[white forum]

You want smaller micro bricks?

I down for stickers though

[leaden grail]

i mostly just wanna make textured stuff lol

[cosmic escarp]

Nothing is stopping you from that

[fleet elbow]

the difference is that microbricks have bevels

[cosmic escarp]

incase y'all still havent understood

we're not getting (micro)bricks without bevels

the devs have been very adamant about that

[fleet elbow]

indeed, but the benefit of this approach is it avoids bevel-free geometry

it would just be a multi-colored plane/cuboid

[sour frost]

iirc the neon / glow material type removes bezels, unless I'm mistaken

[halcyon swift]

But neon bricks dont get affected by shading