I'm currently trying to build a little strategy game where players take control of countries on an world. Each player's countries are represented by having a different color background but as each country is a different irregular shape I'm wondering how best to build this. To be clear I know how to change the color of a sprite or texture, but I'm wondering if there's a better approach to building the map then I outline below
My initial thought is that I export each individual country sprite and then use a shader etc. to change the background color when required. To do this I would obviously need to piece together each scene manually and make sure my countries line up correctly against each other to form the whole world.
This means I can't really create any 'dynamic' worlds. i.e. each map has to be hand curated.
Is there a better way to approach this without having uniform shaped countries? Bearing in mind this is a 2D game and there isn't really physics, could I use a physics body or something similar to get the actual shape of a country, and perhaps make sure each sprite has a white/transparent background then just change that particular color? Leaving the border black or whatever color I choose.
My fallback option is just having a building on each country that has a flag representing the faction color as this would be a lot easier to do.
