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[Rogue Yun]

I am at an impass and I could use your good judgement.

Please look carefully at the next two pictures and tell me which you prefer: A, B, or neither one.

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A:


B:

Can't see a difference?

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In one of the images there is a very subtle blur (or at least I tried to make it subtle). It is much easier for me to work without the blur, but I noticed this blur made Bisasam's tileset appear particularly smooth. If you can't see it clearly, here is an example image that I blew up for you to look at.



I'd like to know some other's opinions on the matter before I go to far doing one or the other.

[Max™]

You can see the difference from the blur on the inside corner of the walls, and as a bisasam lover I'm a fan of that type of stuff already.

[Vattic]

I think you'd gain more from manually anti-aliasing, but it can be a lengthy process. The boldness of your set negates a lot of the benefit either way.

[Rogue Yun]

Well... Here is an alpha version so to speak. It's far from perfect... but it will do for a test example.



Here is the non anti-aliased version for comparison.

[Vattic]

Looking good. You've applied slightly more than I would have, but you haven't gone to the point where shapes are lost in blur.

[Rogue Yun]

I'm certainly a novice at this. I just thought it looked good and I'd take a stab at it. There are certain parts I do see a bit more of a blur than I am comfortable with. If you have any techniques hiding up your magical sleeves, I would love to hear them.

[Vattic]

I'm no expert myself, just a hobbyist. I mostly avoid it except when trying to carve more complex curves like with my stalled tileset (only linked because it illustrates a lot of AA with a before and after shot.

The best advice I can offer is likely something you already do: Keep a zoomed out view of your work open and just tweak away until things look right. To avoid excess blur limit the number of layers of colour used in any one area (like on the diagonals I'd only use one colour if possible). If there are any characters you are having trouble with I can have a go if you like.

[Rogue Yun]

16x16 ASCII Tileset Updated 2014 11 24:


I recommend the following changes in your d_init.txt file:
PILLAR_TILE:10

TREE_TRUNK_PILLAR:10
TREE_TRUNK_PILLAR_DEAD:10
TREE_CAP_PILLAR:10
TREE_CAP_PILLAR_DEAD:10

Screenshots:

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[Max™]

Nice job with the aliasing in the corners, gotta get up really close to see it break up. Be careful getting too obsessive with the blurring though, madness, that way, etc.

Also, uh, did you have a broken link for the tileset itself there? I see an empty space under the screenshot sample.

[Rogue Yun]

Hrmm... There should be a spoiler that you click on. Do you have scripts blocked on your web browser? If you do the Spoiler won't show anything... Other than that I don't know what to tell you.

And I didn't do any aliasing with this set yet. Just some changes with some water tiles and such. But it looked so nice just the way it was that I thought I'd post it for good measure. I think I'll keep fiddling with it till I'm comfortable. Then try my hand again at aliasing.

*edit*
Here are the links the old fashioned url way. If this doesn't work I might have to try a different image hosting site. Is anyone else having problems viewing the images I have posted?

http://s29.postimg.org/4v1nqimlh/capture01.png
http://s29.postimg.org/id8k2syqt/capture02.png
http://s9.postimg.org/axydg17tp/capture03.png
http://s9.postimg.org/z2z2xqs4d/capture04.png
http://s29.postimg.org/ka9vl4esl/capture05.png
http://s29.postimg.org/ae8slh90l/capture06.png
http://s29.postimg.org/o9733y3fp/capture07.png
http://s29.postimg.org/q29zs9omd/capture08.png
http://s29.postimg.org/jr4sbundx/capture10.png

[HaterSkater]

Same here, it won't show 16x16 ASCII Tileset Updated 2014 11 24, 3 posts above
This tileset image does exist though, but only available via direct link taken from message source

http://s30.postimg.org/s7ua3bmcf/16x16_sm.png

Edit: here it is, linked properly

[Rogue Yun]

Ah Thanks! I also just noticed the forums down? or at least I got the 404 error. Could that have been connected or are the images still not visible for you?

[Max™]

I see the one image in the spoiler with a gap under it about the right size for a 16x16 tileset block.

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[Rogue Yun]

Bizarre! I can see the images okay on my system. So weird!

[Rogue Yun]

16x16 Tileset Updated 2014 12 04:


First Post Updated.

Feedback is always welcome