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[Warlord255]

Also, circles.

After seeing this character set - Dorten's improvement to Savok's tileset - on the wiki:


I decided I had to try it out.

With smooth walls, you can actually make circles that don't look horrifically blocky. So after some research in Photoshop to get block-by-blow schemata for circles, I now have a handy guide to circle-carving.

This is what happened when I carved an experimental design;

Before smoothing:

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After smoothing:

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I'm in love, guys. That's all there is to it.

[Duke 2.0]

 I asked him to post it on the Wiki, because something like that should not be shown and not posted for everybody to use.

 It is love. Although the characters are a bit small...

 WHO CARES! It's smooth walls!

[Warlord255]

 I asked him to post it on the Wiki, because something like that should not be shown and not posted for everybody to use.

 It is love. Although the characters are a bit small...

 WHO CARES! It's smooth walls!

Small characters are nothing a little bit of zoom can't fix.

And the tileset IS on the wiki, look for "list of user character sets". I've made some minor tweaks to the icons used for dwarves (his were skinny, and lacking), but beyond that it's great.

One final caveat; don't embark on areas with puddingstone.

[Fenrir]

That is pretty. Blasphemous to all worshippers af ASCII (like myself), but pretty.

[Warlord255]

That is pretty. Blasphemous to all worshippers af ASCII (like myself), but pretty.

Hey, at least it's not a graphics pack.

[LegoLord]

I like it.  it'll probably look weird with the default graphics turned on, though.  All those do is make dwarves look funny and make all the tiles square instead of rectangular.  That's what I normally use.

[Warlord255]

I like it.  it'll probably look weird with the default graphics turned on, though.  All those do is make dwarves look funny and make all the tiles square instead of rectangular.  That's what I normally use.

You don't have to turn on the graphics; just get the image file, replace the "curses blah blah" default in the non-graphics entry, and BAM.

[Zorgn]

Can the angled wall effect eventually be applied to unsmoothed stone?

[Warlord255]

Can the angled wall effect eventually be applied to unsmoothed stone?

Ask Toady.

Right now, unsmoothed/not-constructed walls are rendered as bricks with letters on them.

[Marlowe]

What resolution did you use for the screenshots?

I tried this one, because it does look sweet, but I couldn't find a resolution that didn't make it look blurry and eye-splitting.

[Duke 2.0]

 My personal resolution, which could use some fixin':

 

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[WINDOWEDX:810]
[WINDOWEDY:630]
[FONT:720x225_SmoothWalls.bmp]

[BLACK_SPACE:YES]

[GRID:90:70]

[Warlord255]

Here's mine; I love me some big screen. It fits perfectly.

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[WINDOWEDY]
[FONT:720x225_SmoothWalls.bmp]

[BLACK_SPACE:NO]

[GRID:80:40]

[Sinergistic]

I'm currently trying to adapt this to the mayday pack, it's turned out ok, though several of the tiles don't match up perfectly (They don't look smooth). This is a result of trying to upscale a 9x9 set to a 16x16 set

I could save what I currently have (still tweaking it to get stuff to 'sync' properly) as a PNG and post it if anyone wants.

[Duke 2.0]

 Yes, my eyes would like a 16x16 set.

 And I would like to see any obvious problems with it. As long as smooth walls are there, I'm fine.

[Sinergistic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/aStaleFart/DortenPlusMayday.png

Is what I have so far, there are a couple minor problems where, instead of

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 XYou have this instead...

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I'm messing around with the layout trying to get rid of those, but since I can't directly copy the 9x9 to a 16x16 it's kind of frustrating.

The diagnols are off as well

* Sinergistic goes off to fix.

EDIT: Tweaked it a bunch, should be much smoother now. I can't spot any obvious problems, but let me know if you see any, and I will try and fix.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/aStaleFart/DortenPlusMaydayTweaked.png