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[Brown Moses]

Any chance we could get a Toady One style progress report on Stonesense?

[Deon]

It's already here.
http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/updates/list

[Deon]

Here's a "fitting" troll.


http://depositfiles.com/files/9r4yaxrt0

Also, where can I look for the list of already COMPLETED sprites?

[YojimboUsaka]

Jadael:  Those stone sprites fill me with glee!!!  Awesome work.

Yoj

[Deon]

Yeah, I forgot to comment those, they are great.

Here's a nightwing:

http://depositfiles.com/files/0tziizqcb

(p.s. It's much sharper when in BMP).

[dyze]

jadael: very nice! quite a solid amount of work there.

deon: your sprites are really good but imo they need a much bigger color spectrum, they're too 'flat' right now. just compare with the quick tweak i made:

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you should use a bit more bottom end colors, more saturation and you could easily use one more color for highlights aswell.
apart from that, your sprites are really nice, and will fit with the current style.
oh also, png is a lossless file format so unless you use a huge amount of colors for your sprites, png 8-bit should look more or less exactly the same as a bmp.

[Truean]

This is simply wonderful, all of it.

Do we knew when the next release will be out? Will it include Japa's transparent water and various tile settings (which deserve their own praise)? If not, they how can we, end-users include them ourselves?

Furthermore, this is insanely beautiful:

So here's what I did today.

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And also apparently not working but it's Jadael's sprites for various terrains.

[Brown Moses]

The current todo list has this left for Alpha 4

For A4:
Finish floor and wall config
Properly handle bad DF connections- seems ok?

[Truean]

Thank you very much Brown Moses.

[Shrike]

Just tried it. Very nice. Maybe add in the ability to add in generic sprites with mods, with the curses symbols rendered isometrically, and able to define colors for them. It'll look a bit better than question marks.

But I don't know how difficult that would be; just easier than spriting every possible object and creature.

[CobaltKobold]

in my opinion, water should be transparent.

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That is beautiful.

...Aargh, retro dither transparency!

[Solifuge]

So here's what I did today.

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My jaw actually dropped. For about 30 seconds straight.

You used actual photos of the stones for that, if I'm not mistaken; I can see the little whorls in Bauxite where the aluminum is even! I think some distinction is lost with some of the wall types, but for a realistic style, that is damned sexy! Something reminds me of Starcraft's take on Isometric.

Very cool! Do you think you could do ramps with these dimensions?

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in my opinion, water should be transparent.

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Completely doable, and I can't see many problems with it. Its a pretty easy 8-bit dithering solution, where you dither with the transparent tone instead, much like you did there. I can have that in the build.

[fifth angel]

So here's what I did today.

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Sweet mother of god! *lost consciousness*

[Deon]

Thanks, Dyze, with more contrast it looks much better.

oh also, png is a lossless file format so unless you use a huge amount of colors for your sprites, png 8-bit should look more or less exactly the same as a bmp.

If you look at the teeth on the small image, they are "blurred". They are OK on your big picture though, so I think that it's a problem of small pictures only.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Looking at that awesome collection of stones, I can't help but think of something. Some of those textures are going to be heavily affected by repetitiveness. Maybe it would be possible to randomly flip the tiles when there's a lot of them clustered together? I'm thinking of floors, specifically. That, or the floors need a more connectable pattern, which will be hard for natural stone images.