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[Meph]

I dont know if this is public knowledge, but there is a workaround to more or less add custom sprites to castes. At least when it come to colors. I found out about it when I made the graphics for my blob creatures. I just made a white blob sprite and then used: ADD_COLOR instead of AS_IS in the graphic file. Then defined the caste colors, and viola, every single one of the five castes has a custom color AND a custom sprite. The sprites gets overlayed with the caste color. I did the same for my golems. One creatures, but the dark steel golem can fight a cyan candy golem now.

This could be usefull for all kinds of things, wizards/sorceres, colorful animals, elemental man...

Hope this is not included in the graphics 1*1 and everyone knows it. Just wanted to share this little discovery.

[Courtesy Arloban]

This is a great discovery, but i don't understand how to do it.  Do you have a graphics set that you use it in?

[Meph]

It is quite simple.

The graphics file looks like this:

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graphics_golem

[OBJECT:GRAPHICS]

[TILE_PAGE:GOLEM]
  [FILE:golem.png]
  [TILE_DIM:16:16]
  [PAGE_DIM:5:1]

[CREATURE_GRAPHICS:GOLEM]
[DEFAULT:GOLEM:2:0:ADD_COLOR:DEFAULT]
Your sprite should have a lot of white in it, the less color it has, the more color it can take from you caste_color.

If you now make a golem with 3 castes, and give the first caste CASTE_COLOR:0:0:0, the second one CASTE_COLOR:1:0:0 and the third one CASTE_COLOR 6:1:1 then you will have one black golem, one blue golem and one yellow golem. Same sprite, same creature, different colored sprites.