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[CLA]

*Updated for 40.19*

Sorry for the delay, haven't had any time in the last weeks and I haven't had the chance to improve the tileset either.
Nothing changed, just figured I upload the package with 40.19 since it seems it will be a while now until a new version.
The standalone download is compatible with all versions since 40.19.

Edit:

*Updated for 40.24*
The standalone version will most likely continue to be compatible with future DF versions, so if I don't get around uploading the preinstalled one, just use the standalone.
To make sure they're really compatible, compare d_init.txt and init.txt from the newly downloaded DF version and the standalone download. If there are no new, additional entries, you're good to go. If there are, just add these to the files from the standalone download, too.

[Max™]

OH MY GOD I JUST GOT THE CAVY BOAR ICON YOU ARE A GODDAMN GENIUS...
I had a weird asterisk on the adventure mode travel map that never ambushed me and didn't have any humans or anything, turned out it was a llama and a cavy, and I found that they kept respawning after I killed them.

While doing a zoom-Zoom-ZOOM post about how amusing it is that the most evil thing in a city being attacked by zombies might be these two, it clicked:



THE CAVY IS THE INSIDE OF A LOWERCASE 'C' WITH THE 'C' REMOVED!

*brainsplosion*

[stibbons]

Hey CLA,

first of all I wanted to thank you for your great work. I'm using your tileset since you made it available.
As time goes by and the computer displays (and resolutions) are getting larger and larger, I wanted to ask if there is the possibility of an upscaled version of your tileset.
I've already seen some 24x24 tilesets. But as I'm no tileset designer and I don't know if something like that could easily be done with every tileset, I thought I just ask. 

Greetings
stibbons

[CLA]

Thanks stibbons!
I'm afraid I don't really have the time to do an upscaled version in the near future - especially since I'd have to redo all the creatures as well. But of course I have no problem with others upscaling the tileset/creatures and posting it. IIRC Milo Christiansen experimented with upscaling CLA a while back. There might be a thread somewhere.

[stibbons]

I already expected something like that. But thank you anyway! :-)

[Zesty]

How would I go about just using the animal graphics without the rest of the graphical changes? I prefer the ASCII in general but the animal graphics would be a great addition on their own.

[CLA]

How would I go about just using the animal graphics without the rest of the graphical changes? I prefer the ASCII in general but the animal graphics would be a great addition on their own.

The pack already comes with an alternative tileset that is very close to the how the default would look in square 18x18 (derived from Haowan). Instructions to use it are in the OP.

If you have your own tileset already installed and really just need the creatures, just copy the graphics folder from the CLA pack to your raw/graphics folder and, if you have an existing save, to your data/save/<your region>/raw/graphics too. Don't forget to delete any old creature graphics you had, and remove the example files as well.

After that, you just need to set GRAPHICS to YES in data/init/d_init.txt or init.txt. I can never remember.

I think there's a readme in the graphics folder that has the instructions, too. The Graphics page on the wiki has some information too.
Let me know if something doesn't work.

Oh and do note that it will look weird if the creature graphics and tileset don't have the same tile size (18x18) or multiples of it.

[noirscape]

I love your graphics pack! Looks great while still keeping in touch with DF's original graphics. I do have one question however: Is it possible to make the pack for the original ASCII art size? The square size kinda confuses me.

[CLA]

Is it possible to make the pack for the original ASCII art size?

There are two things here, the "original ASCII art" size (which is 8x12 windowed and 10x12 fullscreen per tile) and the aspect ratio (both somewhere around 4:3; not square). From your reasoning it seems that you don't care so much about the size, but the non-square aspect ratio, right?

Short answer: Yes, it's possible, no I won't do it. If you want a quick solution, resize the tileset to 18x24 (288x384 pixel) or 14x18 (224*288) with the Nearest Neighbor algorithm; you don't need to change any text files. The creature graphics will adjust automatically, too.
For your reference, I use XnViewMP or Photoshop for resizing, but Gimp or any other program that can save transparent PNG and has the Nearest Neighbor resizing algorithm would work. MSPaint doesn't.

Long answer:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes, but it's either quite some tedious work to get it to look good, and I don't want to release something that just sort of looks alright maybe. So I'm pretty certain that I won't be doing that in the next few years. But of course you are (and everyone is) free to take the tileset/creature graphics and resize or redraw them at another size to fit their needs. If you really don't care about the size as long as the aspect ratio is not square, just increasing the size of one side shouldn't be all too much work.

To do it properly, you'd have to resize and correct (or in the worst case redraw from scratch) most of the tileset (let's say 200) and all the creature tiles (400?) in a ~4:3 format, and change all the creature graphic text files (the text files in raw/graphics/) accordingly (just search & replace 18x18 with your new size - 18x14 for example). More information on that is on the wiki pages for graphic set and tileset

The easiest way to get good enough results would probably be to resize the tileset to a couple of different sizes and see which looks like it needs the least amount of correction. Decide on one that is closest to the size you want, and look at which tiles look the worst. Redraw those manually and save the image as transparent png again. Maybe it's already good enough for you that it doesn't need any redrawing.

I just played around with it a little and 24x18 as well as 18x14 seem like really good candidates. I saw barely any bad tiles in the tileset. 14x10 already looks pretty bad and 12x9 would be nice to have, but it's completely illegible and would require pretty much redrawing everything from scratch.

Increasing the size is always gonna work better than decreasing obviously. As the tileset has little to no dithering, shading and anti-aliasing, I recommend Nearest Neighbor as resizing algorithm.

On that note, if people like a 36x36 tileset, that's of course trivial to do as there will be no reisizing artifacts with a 200% increase.

[Max™]

Yeah, I tried to scale it up to work with the 32x48 size I use in adventurer mode but I suck at it.

I tried to insert some padding to preserve your art and the square aspect ratio with the transparent buffer to fit the shape but again, not ideal.

[CLA]

Yeah, I tried to scale it up to work with the 32x48 size I use in adventurer mode but I suck at it.

That's an awkward choice of size for 18x18. It only works well for 16x16 tilesets (2x and 3x scale). If you try resizing it to 36x54 (again, with nearest neighbor of course) you'll see that it resizes absolutely flawless. Of course I don't know if that size is acceptable for you, but that was the whole point of making it 18x18 to begin with - for people that want a tileset slightly larger than 16x16. I guess in the end that extends to the recent size inflation as well.

[noirscape]

Is it possible to make the pack for the original ASCII art size?

There are two things here, the "original ASCII art" size (which is 8x12 windowed and 10x12 fullscreen per tile) and the aspect ratio (both somewhere around 4:3; not square). From your reasoning it seems that you don't care so much about the size, but the non-square aspect ratio, right?

Short answer: Yes, it's possible, no I won't do it. If you want a quick solution, resize the tileset to 18x24 (288x384 pixel) or 14x18 (224*288) with the Nearest Neighbor algorithm; you don't need to change any text files. The creature graphics will adjust automatically, too.
For your reference, I use XnViewMP or Photoshop for resizing, but Gimp or any other program that can save transparent PNG and has the Nearest Neighbor resizing algorithm would work. MSPaint doesn't.

Long answer:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes, but it's either quite some tedious work to get it to look good, and I don't want to release something that just sort of looks alright maybe. So I'm pretty certain that I won't be doing that in the next few years. But of course you are (and everyone is) free to take the tileset/creature graphics and resize or redraw them at another size to fit their needs. If you really don't care about the size as long as the aspect ratio is not square, just increasing the size of one side shouldn't be all too much work.

To do it properly, you'd have to resize and correct (or in the worst case redraw from scratch) most of the tileset (let's say 200) and all the creature tiles (400?) in a ~4:3 format, and change all the creature graphic text files (the text files in raw/graphics/) accordingly (just search & replace 18x18 with your new size - 18x14 for example). More information on that is on the wiki pages for graphic set and tileset

The easiest way to get good enough results would probably be to resize the tileset to a couple of different sizes and see which looks like it needs the least amount of correction. Decide on one that is closest to the size you want, and look at which tiles look the worst. Redraw those manually and save the image as transparent png again. Maybe it's already good enough for you that it doesn't need any redrawing.

I just played around with it a little and 24x18 as well as 18x14 seem like really good candidates. I saw barely any bad tiles in the tileset. 14x10 already looks pretty bad and 12x9 would be nice to have, but it's completely illegible and would require pretty much redrawing everything from scratch.

Increasing the size is always gonna work better than decreasing obviously. As the tileset has little to no dithering, shading and anti-aliasing, I recommend Nearest Neighbor as resizing algorithm.

On that note, if people like a 36x36 tileset, that's of course trivial to do as there will be no reisizing artifacts with a 200% increase.

I wasn't talking about the tileset, I'm talking about the creature graphics. From your answer it seems that all I have to do is install only the creature graphics to make those work?

[puke]

Can you specify different resolution for creature tiles and regular tiles in the INI?  If so, it would rely on the openGL engine to stretch them.

If not (and i think it is not), you would end up with undersized creature tiles.  This would mean that half of one creature would show up in the wrong place, and the entire set would be generally garbled.

Even in the best case scenario of the openGL doing the stretching, if you want pixel-perfect, you'll have to scale the creature graphics by hand.

[CLA]

I wasn't talking about the tileset, I'm talking about the creature graphics. From your answer it seems that all I have to do is install only the creature graphics to make those work?

The game automatically resizes creature graphics to have the same dimensions as your main tileset. Of course the result might be muddy or distorted and look worse than manually resizing.
But yeah, just install the creature graphics without changing the tileset and you're good to go.
If it doesn't look good enough, try manual resizing to some value that's closer to the desired dimensions and let the rest do the game. That might work better.

Edit: Clarified it on the wiki.

[Max™]

I meant I resized it by adding some transparent padding so they would stay square, I think I bumped them up to 150% or something which didn't look bad but the padding didn't work as well as I hoped, and they didn't look the same squashed.