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is there a way to make like a black or white or gradient thing that allows for a all purpose use for pathway edges so I don't have to make like grass edges, cliff edges, etc. by like hiding or showing part of a turf if so how do I do it

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I haven't really had time to document this, but I made an autotile generator for WritingANewOne. Currently, I need to add some functionality in that allows it to override outer corners, as well as generate inner corners, but it should do the job, if you can figure out how to use it.

http://www.byond.com/developer/Ter13/Autotiler

It doesn't quite do what you asked for, but it does help in quickly generating 256, 47, and 16 state autotiles from a series of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 (Northeast), 32 (Southwest), 64 (Northwest), and 128 (southeast) states.