I absolutely love the art in this project, but as mentioned by many others, it doesn't work out of the box. After comparing its assets to competitors' that work well in hex kit, I found a way to hack this pack into working again.
I don't recommend it unless you're comfortable with the command line.
In hopes that Zeshio will try it out and submit an official fix for the pack, here's what I did:
1. Edit settings.yml - change padding to 12.8
2. Install ImageMagick
3. Using command line / powershell, navigate to the pixel hex directory and run this:
4. Repeat for each directory containing images (E.g. "01 Grass"). In Pixel Hex 2 you'll need to include each nested subdirectory as well... It's a pain.
The ImageMagick script adds a transparent border to the sides and bottom of all the .png files in the given directory, which centers the image and gives a bit of padding.
Yeah, unfortunately, this tile set does not align properly in Hexkit contrary to information on this product's page saying otherwise. I absolutely love this tileset and want to use it, but I cannot recommend it at this time due to it's broken functionality.
If the author has the ability to fix whatever this issue is then that would be amazing! But as it stands, I think that people might want to steer clear.
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I absolutely love the art in this project, but as mentioned by many others, it doesn't work out of the box. After comparing its assets to competitors' that work well in hex kit, I found a way to hack this pack into working again.
I don't recommend it unless you're comfortable with the command line.
In hopes that Zeshio will try it out and submit an official fix for the pack, here's what I did:
1. Edit settings.yml - change padding to 12.8
2. Install ImageMagick
3. Using command line / powershell, navigate to the pixel hex directory and run this:
magick mogrify -bordercolor transparent -border 6x12 -chop 0x12+0+0 'IMAGE DIRECTORY\*.png'
4. Repeat for each directory containing images (E.g. "01 Grass"). In Pixel Hex 2 you'll need to include each nested subdirectory as well... It's a pain.
The ImageMagick script adds a transparent border to the sides and bottom of all the .png files in the given directory, which centers the image and gives a bit of padding.
Just saw a comment further down from zeshio forever ago.. Just use Tiled (free on itch.io), it works perfectly and is actively updated
DOES NOT WORK WITH HEX KIT!
there are still several Youtube videos and post you can find who advertise this. Do not buy this if you want to use it with Hex Kit. It does not work.
Yeah, unfortunately, this tile set does not align properly in Hexkit contrary to information on this product's page saying otherwise. I absolutely love this tileset and want to use it, but I cannot recommend it at this time due to it's broken functionality.
If the author has the ability to fix whatever this issue is then that would be amazing! But as it stands, I think that people might want to steer clear.