Advice on creating levels for 2D game

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I have been creating 2D platform games for many many years and used “tiles” in a self made level editor to create the levels.

I am now considering to switch to 2D in a 3D game (as shown in the 2D Tutorial) but this is very different from what I am used to since “tiling” seems not to be used for 3D games.

I therefore seek advice on how I should approach level creation. I have the basics of creating a 2D game in a 3D engine down, but I am not sure how to approach this.

I am using Cinema 4D to create the level and I use a simple polygon (line to line) to outline the walkable area. When I have completed the profile I extrude the polygon to give it a depth.

My questions are:

  1. Is this a good approach from a level creation perspective?

  2. How do I get the textures to follow the upper edge so that I can have grass on the top edge (like in the attached picture)?

Hope that you can help me out on this with some advice.

Best regards
Kim

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No one who can help?

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try looking on some tutorials on 3d and texturing in Cinema 4D on Youtube.

The models must be unwrapped to make the textures to go were you want …

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You can still use tiles if you want, they’d just be made out of polygons instead of images.

–Eric

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Exactly, can you not just make reusable textured cubes instead of images?

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For a game such as this, why not create an editor for it within unity itself? Click to place a prefab of a terrain slope or enemy, save it’s position and all the others in a text file for use by the actual game.

You can even put some polish on it and ship it with your game as an added bonus.