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Name for multi-tile images?

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Printed Date: 27 October 2025 at 4:23pm


Topic: Name for multi-tile images?
Posted By: Shinobody
Subject: Name for multi-tile images?
Date Posted: 30 October 2019 at 5:57pm
I'm a beginning pixel artist, and I'm curious - is there one universally agreed name for large continuous images constructed from multiple terrain tiles?

For example, like the buried skeletons in this picture: http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/61422.htm - http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/61422.htm - they're clearly too large to fit into one terrain tile if this was a real game. And I recall many games use that technique to create illusion of a realistic non-tiled terrain.

I tried looking up some pixel art glossaries, and couldn't find anything about that.


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Posted By: mairusu
Date Posted: 31 October 2019 at 12:25am
You seem to be describing a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supertile - supertile . Depending on the writer or game engine's preference, it may also be called a "chunk" or "metatile". For instance, https://megacatstudios.com/blogs/press/metatiles - this article describes it using the latter term.

Posted By: Shinobody
Date Posted: 31 October 2019 at 3:53am
Thank you!


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