Level setting: force invisible level border
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:04 pm
Right now the level border is only ever invisible and obscured from the camera (if possible) when it is completely surrounded by indestructible elements, e.g.:
I think it would be useful to have a setting that forces the level border to be invisible and not favored by the camera regardless of whether it's surrounded. This way a level could be wrapped in some of the fancier destructible blocks in the case that those blocks can't be destroyed with the tools given in the level. Even if you can touch the invisible border somehow, sometimes borderless levels can be a nice aesthetic.
Here is an example of a neat-looking level that is unfortunately held back by the quite visible level border:
For the level above, even wrapping it in invisible steel walls would not be enough, since the inner layer of invisible steel walls would be accessible by the camera such that the destructible tiles still wouldn't look like the level border.
I think it would be useful to have a setting that forces the level border to be invisible and not favored by the camera regardless of whether it's surrounded. This way a level could be wrapped in some of the fancier destructible blocks in the case that those blocks can't be destroyed with the tools given in the level. Even if you can touch the invisible border somehow, sometimes borderless levels can be a nice aesthetic.
Here is an example of a neat-looking level that is unfortunately held back by the quite visible level border:
For the level above, even wrapping it in invisible steel walls would not be enough, since the inner layer of invisible steel walls would be accessible by the camera such that the destructible tiles still wouldn't look like the level border.