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[Uthimienure]

My preference is workshops with a thin border to define their area, but no floor; I would prefer to see the floor underneath
because then I could make it smooth, engraved, rough, dirt, stone, wood, or wtf-ever I pleased.
 
But I'm just going to wait and see what the graphics gurus come up with and not stress over it.
It should all be moddable in the steam release, eh?  Not long after release, there will be several graphics mods, I'm guessing.

[Erendir]

My preference is workshops with a thin border to define their area, but no floor; I would prefer to see the floor underneath
because then I could make it smooth, engraved, rough, dirt, stone, wood, or wtf-ever I pleased.
 
But I'm just going to wait and see what the graphics gurus come up with and not stress over it.
It should all be moddable in the steam release, eh?  Not long after release, there will be several graphics mods, I'm guessing.

this.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Will full mouse control be a game changer? Once you can flick the cursor quickly across the map and have the workshops and stockpiles highlight as you pass over them, maybe the need for defined floor area isn't so important any more?

[Uthimienure]

Will full mouse control be a game changer? Once you can flick the cursor quickly across the map and have the workshops and stockpiles highlight as you pass over them, maybe the need for defined floor area isn't so important any more?

Not for me. I play with 2 hands on the keyboard and don't prefer to use the mouse. A game breaker for me would be if the mouse ever becomes required to control the game in any way. Optional mouse is fine, "required" is not.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Will full mouse control be a game changer? Once you can flick the cursor quickly across the map and have the workshops and stockpiles highlight as you pass over them, maybe the need for defined floor area isn't so important any more?

Not for me. I play with 2 hands on the keyboard and don't prefer to use the mouse. A game breaker for me would be if the mouse ever becomes required to control the game in any way. Optional mouse is fine, "required" is not.

Not sure how a natural workshop floor design would somehow make a game unplayable regardless of your choice of controller? Might make them hard to spot for complete noobs, but then, they'd likely be using the mouse anyway.

[Uthimienure]

I must have missed something, but what does mouse vs keyboard have to do with workshops? 
So I'm not sure why mouse control is being discussed (aside from the "flick the cursor" thing).

I certainly didn't intend to infer that a natural workshop floor would make anything unplayable, for me
it's only an aesthetic issue. Having an integral floor just looks worse imo.

The border really helps me to pick out the workshops amid a cluttered area, especially when zoomed out.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I asked if being able to tell exactly which tiles a workshop was taking up clearly (and therefore requiring a clearly visibly defined floor) was going to be less of a problem in a mouse controlled game where you can highlight the whole screen in a couple of flicks. Was hoping someone with UI experience would chime in.

Not likely to use a mouse either, certainly not demanding it be "required". Was just asking if it makes a difference to tileset design philosophy.

[Starver]

As it arose from how you'd differentiate 'baseless' furniture, yeah, you could make your cursor produce hovertext hint-bubbles, dynamic 'boundary roping' and/or 'fog of attention' area overshading to indicate what is at your focus.

You have two potential focii, though, as pointed out, mouse-cursor and text-cursor. It needs to work for either (mouse-hover is pixel and/or mickey resolution, text is tile-per-tap). And both. If I'm using the text-cursor to shuffle along the viewport scroll, by nudging the edges, while applying mouse-touches (fine-tuning a non-trivial long feature) then that'd be an interesting challenge to correctly mark without being potentially annoying.

But that's GUI design, applicable regardless of tile design.

[Rose]

This is great, I love it.



This is not. The light colored water just looks like a puddle, rather than a deeper pool.

[Manveru Taurënér]

This is great, I love it.



This is not. The light colored water just looks like a puddle, rather than a deeper pool.

Was just about to say, that brook is a 10/10, just exquisite, and while the regular pool isn't necessarily bad it just pales in comparison. Not sure how to match it to the quality of the brook tho.

[Starver]

I like the rippling effect on both.

The top (image) is obviously shallow because you can see the bottom (of the ?stream?/?brook?), the bottom (image) shows no obvious bottom, but could just be "blue lagoon atoll sand" maybe, psychologically.  Can we easily get a version with lightness+rocks and darkness=depths to compare? Or is "darker-blue lagoon" already reserved for greater Zs of depth than 1Z streams/etc (and maybe the rocky version just doesn't look right as a bright-blue brook).

[ror6ax]

My 5p is that all art so far has a "shimmer" problem. Animation makes it stand out more.

Brook water is nice but it has exact same big oval rock in a good dozen of adjacent tiles. It does not look naturally random. Also a dark line separating water tiles is very pronounced. A bit of a gradient would probably solve it.

Lake looks like teal coloured TV noise. Very not naturally looking + now that a repeated pattern moves, repeatedly = water uncanny valley.

[Rose]

Also, I want different water depths to cover different amounts of ramps.

[NotEvenBatman]

This is great, I love it.



This is not. The light colored water just looks like a puddle, rather than a deeper pool.

Can I ask where did u get those 2 images from?
I only follow this thread for the updates on graphic stuff.

[Manveru Taurënér]

Can I ask where did u get those 2 images from?
I only follow this thread for the updates on graphic stuff.

From an announcement on the DF steam page:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/975370/announcements/detail/2226414325782852009