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[forsaken1111]

Glass and Ice



Edit: The wall/floor dropins in 1.2 have the wrong obsidian sprite. Will fix in 1.3

Can you visually differentiate between crystal glass and clear glass?

[kaypy]

Can you visually differentiate between crystal glass and clear glass?

In real life or DF? 8-)

I have no idea how I would draw crystal as distinct from clear, and its a lower priority given that as yet you cant distinguish wood from rock. You could go through and up the brightness I suppose...

[forsaken1111]

I was just curious really.

Overall I love what you've done so far.

[kaypy]

This one could probably use more work- thinner boards on the slopes maybe?

[Crossroads Inc.]

Hmmm. *tries something*

EDIT: Alright, try re-downloading. Peat is changed.

EDIT: Sneak preview:

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My only complaint is that "Gold" doesn't look very shinny

[forsaken1111]

Are smoothed and unsmoothed floors supposed to look the same?

[kaypy]

My only complaint is that "Gold" doesn't look very shinny

Well its gold ore rather than metallic gold...

Are smoothed and unsmoothed floors supposed to look the same?

We should have different sprites for
(a) Rough natural stone
(b) Detailed natural stone (ie smoothed or engraved, we cant tell them apart)
and
(c) Constructed stone (we cant tell blocks from rough)

[forsaken1111]

Hm, maybe I have this installed wrong then? I'm seeing smoothed and rough felsite floors as the same.

[forsaken1111]

An example I dug out to show you. This is Felsite and Microcline.

[kaypy]

Oh, you're using Jadael's pack. Hmm. It looks like it should have the smooth floors defined from a quick glance through the XML, but its hard to be really sure.

[forsaken1111]

I'll remove his pack and see if that makes a difference. I do like his pack as it lets me differentiate more stone types visually.

Edit: Yep without his pack the smoothed floors do look different, but all stone looks the same so bleh. I like to have different-colored stone because I tend to do murals in floor tiles, or interesting designs.

[Dark_Tundra]

Are you using an automated system to generate these ramps?
I hope you wont be insulted if I post this up here; made to match the default smooth tiles:

[Jadael]

My pack does have different sprites for rough and smooth floors, but some stone like felsite, diorite, conglomerate, etc. look large the same in both because they're very... lumpy.

[forsaken1111]

That's unfortunate. Do you have any plans to make finished stone look a bit more finished? Would be nice if they looked like tiles or at least a bit smoother.

Also seems some of the colors are a bit off, as alunite is a light brown or yellowish color?

[kaypy]

Are you using an automated system to generate these ramps?

I have a template in the SVN which gives me
(a) some guides to use stretch tools to get a texture into the right shape
(b) some stencils to chop out the bits and pieces when I want to paste them onto the basic ramp blanks (the more complex ramps are generally done by pasting one ramp over another)

I hope you wont be insulted if I post this up here; made to match the default smooth tiles:

Thankyou! I wasn't particularly happy with the constructed ramps I had, but hadn't yet gotten around to trying again. Now I dont have to 8-)

edit: OK, these ramps are now in the content pack