I already said how much I like this idea on discord but I wanna support it here too!~

if automating the sprite adaptation is too much to code, alternatively the player could maybe manually switch around the sprite from a dropdown menu (or by clicking on it in the house decorator), just like rotations, just that instead of "up, down, left, right" it's "upwards, sideways, center, corner (4 directions), endpiece (also 4 directions)" or something along those lines.

There's a lot of different path types that can be made for both indoors and outdoors so a special item category would make sense imo. It could also possibly stack below ground covers so that we could put our carpets and concrete slabs on top?

edit: oh and, I forgot to mention it would evidently need a lot of sprites, which is a downside; while the artist can just easily rotate things like corner and end-pieces, that'd still be like a dozen image files associated with just one item. I hope that wouldn't be too big of a deal but I still tend to worry about things like server strain lol.

I thought, only 11 sprites sounds unlikely, so I went ahead and made a small reference on what kind of pieces we'd need for a good path experience:





Though, this "set" was made with larger pathed areas in mind (for example a path that's 2-3 tiles wide rather than 1, or a 6x6 area entirely covered in path tiles and such). If paths were to only support 1 tile width then it'd need 15 sprites, but if it supported more freedom it'd need like, 30...

Specifically talking about paths that have defined 'edges' though, with maximum aesthetics applied meaning said 'edges' connect nicely at all times, hence the little corner pieces on those individual tiles. Some paths don't have 'edges' so those would probably need a drastically smaller amount of sprites which could create more complications... which sucks because I'm still totally behind this idea.

heck yeah, support we need more ways to section rooms for decorating and a seamless path would be a great addition