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[Techhead]

I've made a tileset over the past year, I don't feel like talking much right now, so here is a link to it on the DFWiki.
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Tell me what you think.

[Musluk]

In-game screenshots would be better, imo. Too many angles for my poor eyes, but people might like it.

[Duke 2.0]

 Now note this is late at night and I'm tired, but...
 Those angles stab my eyes. Unless they make some really cool-looking fortresses and aren't totally unreadable in text, they stab my eyes. Literally.

[PTTG??]

Well it's late and MY eyes are tired too, but I think it's AWESOMEZORS!

[Tahin]

Looks... dwarven.

I'll have to test it out at some point.

[martinuzz]

look interesting enough to try it out...

[Techhead]

I can see what I can do about softening the angles, short of an entire redesign.
Is it the letters or the icons or both? Are some tiles particularly egregious?

I actually wasn't entirely happy with my handling of the letters myself. I might redo the lowercases for legibility.

If anyone has problems or suggestions with specific characters, please don't hesitate to mention it, so I can fix them quicker. I think I'll wait a day or two until I get some feedback from play-testers.

[Musluk]

I'd like an in-game screenshot, actually. It'd show the contrast between angles and the general blockiness of the game better.

[G-Flex]

I don't know if I'd say the tileset looks bad, because I don't think it necessarily does, but the letter resembling runes would make the entire game nigh-unreadable. That's bad.

I mean, I could read it. Just not comfortably.

[RAM]

Hmmm, I decided to upload an image of my fort rendered in nordic, just for an example, but it didn't work... I downloaded the .png from the wiki and converted it to 24bit bmp in paint, I added it to my init, it works just fine with my old font, but this is what happens when I try nordic http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5204-searseal. The weird thing is that there are these dwarf figures for my dwarves, but there isn't a single image in my art folder that looks anything like them.

Would someone else please upload an image of nordic in use for people to see?

[Musluk]

Did you adjust the grid to 16x16?

Edit: Nah, the PNG on the wiki is borked.

[Musluk]

Doublepost boo, but still.



Myeah. Same on both downloads - the PNG on the wiki is problematic.

Edit'D:



Used photoshop to change the format, worked a bit, but still no go.

The angles do gouge my eyes out, btw.

[Tormy]

Hm...I don't like it to be honest...it looks unpleasant to the eye, but maybe that's just me.

[Footkerchief]

Hm...I don't like it to be honest...it looks unpleasant to the eye, but maybe that's just me.

Constructive criticism is pretty much the only useful kind.

[PTTG??]

Yeah, that one right below the rightward-facing arrow needs to be blank.
Other than that, lessee... I'd say give it all some kind of shading to reinforce the shape.
The Stone is easy to confuse with a Diamond- try making the Stone a hexagon.
The Lever states are nice, they look like they could be abstract letters or the characters they are.