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[UncleSporky]

I saw what Toady had done with the bearded dwarves, the way their beards are a slightly darker color.  After some experimenting, I discovered that you can essentially use a grayscale for all graphics.  I set to work on a basic tileset with the stipulation of not changing any textual characters (i.e., change "c" to a little cat and you've got cats all through your menus).

Not done yet by a long shot, but I made quite a bit of progress:

What do you think?  I'm especially proud of the trees, beds and bones.  The river also looks pretty cool in motion.

The tiles it uses are the 800x600 set, so it'll work in fullscreen or a modified window.

Open the image in MSPaint and save it as a 24-bit BMP into your Dwarf Fortress art folder (backup the original graphics).

[dav]

Knowing how incredibly difficult it is to work in tiny resolution - wow.  

I think I'll wait to download until it's more complete and/or readable than the current one.

[Parker]

If you stare at the farthest copper ore (green gem thingy) to the left, the miasma cloud appears to flash.  Crazy!

[RPB]

How well do those water graphics work on all the other objects that use them? It looks like they'd work for fields, and roads might be OK, but fat/tallow is going to be kind of ugly I think. Then again, I guess that makes sense...

[Chesspieceface]

This is a great idea!  Can keep the roguelike ASCII set untill there are seperate graphic sets but improve some of the existing characters.  Way to go!

Though I notice some of the modified characters are used in some of the more obscure generated names, maybe the name lists could be changed in that regard.

[ August 27, 2006: Message edited by: Chesspieceface ]

[UncleSporky]

quote:Originally posted by Chesspieceface:
<STRONG>This is a great idea!  Can keep the roguelike ASCII set untill there are seperate graphic sets but improve some of the existing characters.  Way to go!

Though I notice some of the modified characters are used in some of the more obscure generated names, maybe the name lists could be changed in that regard.

[ August 27, 2006: Message edited by: Chesspieceface ]</STRONG>

Really?  Which ones?  The only problem I know of is the up arrow in menus, which is now a tree.  :p

[Chesspieceface]

The one I noticed was the 'lever' symbol.  Its used in some of the names as an accented 'o'.

[UncleSporky]

Crap.  Well, I admit I didn't test it that much, mostly went from memory.

I wonder if I should change the dwarves and @ to little people, or just make their faces more detailed...

[SkeleTony]

Very nice work so far. I was just saying at a different forum that I would not try getting heavy into this until tilesets and/or a user-friendly interface was implemented. What you have done here is impressive!

[imsabbel]

I like it very much.

Now only one thing is missing:
-A default resolution with much more square tiles (the current one is rediculous. Running at 1200x450 window makes it less sucky. I mean, a square room SHOULD look square, too..).
-more tiles. 80x60, 100x80. There is so much empty space on the monitor, and so much time wasted scrolling around.

[ToxicFrog]

Well, both of those are properties of the game engine, not the tileset, so...
Widening the field of view has actually been discussed before, but not implemented yet.

Concerning square tiles - you can set a square resolution and it'll automatically scale them nicely. I've been working on a set of 15x15 graphical tiles for use at 1200x360, similar to Sporky's project, but it's a long way from complete.

[odd2k]

This look promising, but until Toady decides to separate more graphic tiles from eachother, you will just end up changing many things at once when altering most of the graphics. Like how changing the tree graphics will also change the up arrows in menus.

Maybe there could be some sort of text file assigning objects to tiles? For example "animal.cat = tile(5, 23)" and so on? That way, Toady could keep his graphics as simple as he wants while at the same time allowing users to modify anything.

[Captain Mayday]

I'll have to try this out, but you should be able to do this by altering the matgloss files in RAW and extending the art files.

[odd2k]

Oh my. I'm on it as well!

edit: How does it count tiles though, for example what does "tile 234" translate to in the

• [y] format?

  [ August 28, 2006: Message edited by: odd2k ]

[Captain Mayday]

There are currently 256 tiles (16x16). It goes from Tile 0 to Tile 255. There is no xy format.