How can I have Unity display the correct tiles based on their surrounding tiles (ie corners)

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I’m relatively new to Unity, and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, so I figured I’d ask here.

I’m currently building a randomly generated, 2D, top-down game using Perlin noise for the RNG. At each world coordinate (x, y) the Perlin noise returns a “height” value (z) that I can use to display the correct type of tile (grass, dirt, sand, ocean, etc).

My next step is to make the tiles seamlessly blend into each other, instead of having a hard line between them. I’d like it to look like the middle section of this image.

I know Unity has the 9-slice feature, but is that something that can be handled grammatically using C#? Or can that only be used in drawing manually? Ideally, I was hoping Unity had something that worked similar to this feature in Tiled.

Or maybe 9-slice isn’t even the answer, I’m not all that familiar with it.

Any help is much appreciated, I’ve been stuck on this for a few days now.

Thanks!

ps. I’m using the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) base assets.

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quill18creates has a Youtube channel where he is doing a tutorial on creating a base building game in Unity. He goes through doing tile transitions and such. Don’t recall which episode (he’s up to 36 or so) but it should be fairly simple to find.

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In case anybody else needs this type of feature, this link is what I ended up using, and it worked 100% perfectly.