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[Meph]

I'm trying to fit out a few more civs with full sprite sets, since they should become playable civs in future.

I have a naga civ which uses this atm:


But it should in the end look like this:


The graphics_naga.txt is already finished, I'd just need some help with the sprites. Any artists up for it?

[Nopal]

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[Meph]

Thank you.

Yes, its the merman graphics. The snakepeople graphics of phoebus have a snake upper-body too, but I wanted something a little bit more human.

[Ganb]

I tried prisoner 




Not sure if there's a palette restriction (I just sampled from the dwarf sheet).
Or why they're facing left or right in particular?

[jecowa]

I don't think there's any technical restrictions on palettes. I think the direction a creature is facing is sometimes used to indicate if it's hostile maybe. It seems like the military units will often face a different direction than the civilian units for other races, I think.

[Tallcastle]

Would you mind if I reworked the base image?  Or is your heart set on this color palate?

[Meph]

No, not at all. Please, go ahead. These are just the Phoebus mer-people, which were the best approximation I found in the existing sprites.

[Tallcastle]

here are 2 potential looks you could go with.
I could do either one.

Spoiler: Example (click to show/hide)

here is one blown up for better viewing

[Meph]

I know this is a strange request, but could you do both? If they have the same posture you can do them on a different layer than the items/weapon/armor and toggle them. It shouldnt be more work than doing one, I hope.

I'd use one for female and one for males.

[Tallcastle]

sure! Keep in mind though, i'm a little ADD, and I dont want to flake out on you.
i could start with something simple and provide a base set much like my animal people to start.

like here

creature_large_ocean.png

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creature_large_riverlake.png

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that should get you something for all the professions at least, so that if i zone out on you, you will still have something you can work with.

[Rydel]

I'd use one for female and one for males.

Unless you've found some clever trick (which I'd love to hear), you can't separate creature graphics by sex or caste.

[Meph]

I found a clever trick, otherwise I wouldnt say so.

Create-unit allows to spawn civ-members that do labors. Nagas are snake-people, so they do not give birth, but lay eggs. I gave them "LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGG", which gives a tool item. That is used in a workshop, the spawning pool, to create new units. NAGA_FEMALE and NAGA_MALE. Two different creatures.

Since there is no live birth, they dont need to marry. Civ members will lay eggs even when single. (unfertilized ones, but the reaction does not care)

[Teneb]

I found a clever trick, otherwise I wouldnt say so.

Create-unit allows to spawn civ-members that do labors. Nagas are snake-people, so they do not give birth, but lay eggs. I gave them "LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGG", which gives a tool item. That is used in a workshop, the spawning pool, to create new units. NAGA_FEMALE and NAGA_MALE. Two different creatures.

Since there is no live birth, they dont need to marry. Civ members will lay eggs even when single. (unfertilized ones, but the reaction does not care)

Wouldn't only one gender appear at embark and migration, however?

[Meph]

yes.

[jecowa]

Does Dwarf Fortress support gender-specific tiles? I noticed some tilesets declaring a king_consort and a queen_consort, but I wasn't sure if that actually did anything.