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[Solifuge]

Beautiful spritework on those brook tiles, all. I've not got the talent for high-color spriting, and lack in visual creativity at times, having only basic art training, and learning spriting on heavily indexed pallettes and low-res DOS-era stuff. Still haven't shaken the habits, hence some of the stylized retroness going on.

It's a tall order, but some day when this engine is finished, I hope to see a tileset in that style. It looks nice.

[quinnr]

...spriting on heavily indexed pallettes and low-res DOS-era stuff. Still haven't shaken the habits, hence some of the stylized retroness going on...

But that's what I like about Stonesense...

[Fleeb]

So, ah, what versions of DF does this work for? I can't get it to work with the latest d19.

[Solifuge]

I think work on d18 was done, if you look back a few pages. Last stable I used was d16 though... you might need to backtrack a few builds.

...spriting on heavily indexed pallettes and low-res DOS-era stuff. Still haven't shaken the habits, hence some of the stylized retroness going on...

But that's what I like about Stonesense...

Don't get me wrong, I like the Retro too, hence why I'm doing it. Heck, I'm full of myself, so by default anything I do is the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. More seriously though, it's my chosen style, and works really well when making things tile without obvious edges and repetition and such.

I just happen to really like the complex textures and rich colors used in those tiles too, and it's a technique I've never yet been able to master. Maybe some day... *wistful eyes*

[tobias]

Unless of course somebody wants to make custom sprites for all 7 depths of brook, which would end up looking pretty good probably, but may be more effort than it's worth.

Not perfect, but it's a start.

I made the bits sticking out looks like stones instead of mud/dirt. Didn't occur to me when I made the original, but having the water levels brought it to my attention. I'm astounded by your ability to change the water levels without having the original file, by the way. You're a great sprite maker.

Here's a version that takes the water sections and makes them able to see through to the ground in the alternate transparency method found in the already existing water tiles.

Here I brightened up the water a bit, since now it looked a bit odd in Stonesense.

So, ah, what versions of DF does this work for? I can't get it to work with the latest d19.

To get it to work with d19, you need to go to the Stonesense Directory and replace your Memory.xml with this version (you may wish to make a copy of the old one, just in case).

[Retro]

...spriting on heavily indexed pallettes and low-res DOS-era stuff. Still haven't shaken the habits, hence some of the stylized retroness going on...

But that's what I like about Stonesense...

Don't get me wrong, I like the Retro too

*obligatory cough cough* >_>

I do like those brook tiles that are developing in the thread. Hopefully someone will manage to test them in Stonesense and see how they work with everything else.

[Dark_Tundra]

I'm astounded by your ability to change the water levels without having the original file, by the way. You're a great sprite maker.

I've been spriting since I was about 2 years old, and most of that was modifying other sprites. I didn't actually get out of MS paint until highschool(new version sucks though).
I was really lucky, your water practically drained itself.

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Uploaded my today's project. Directional smoothed+constructed stone
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Stonesense/Content_repository#Terrain

[tobias]

I'm astounded by your ability to change the water levels without having the original file, by the way. You're a great sprite maker.

I've been spriting since I was about 2 years old, and most of that was modifying other sprites. I didn't actually get out of MS paint until highschool(new version sucks though).
I was really lucky, your water practically drained itself.

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Uploaded my today's project. Directional smoothed+constructed stone
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Stonesense/Content_repository#Terrain

Overhanging floors need borders, it took me way too long to figure out what was going on there. o.o
It looks nice, though.

[Rose]

ok, I think I've gotten this to some level of stability.

I'm working on an experimental build that gives proper transparencies, resizeable windows, and TTF fonts.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1914


while I like to think that I got the bugs worked out, I know that there's some that I know nothing about.
anyway, if you find a bug in this version, either PM it to me, or post it here. don't bother jonask about it.

[jonask84]

Uploaded my today's project. Directional smoothed+constructed stone
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Stonesense/Content_repository#Terrain

@ Tundra, I am impressed! You really got how the terrain walls are working! And the sprites are very well done; on behalf of all of us, thank you

@ japa: As I've said before, I'm really digging the way your branch is heading. Can't wait to get this into the official release (like we talked about in private). How is performance going? Is the Allegro preview still a little sluggish?

[Dark_Tundra]

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I'm astounded by your ability to change the water levels without having the original file, by the way. You're a great sprite maker.

I've been spriting since I was about 2 years old, and most of that was modifying other sprites. I didn't actually get out of MS paint until highschool(new version sucks though).
I was really lucky, your water practically drained itself.

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Uploaded my today's project. Directional smoothed+constructed stone
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Stonesense/Content_repository#Terrain

Overhanging floors need borders, it took me way too long to figure out what was going on there. o.o
It looks nice, though.

Uploaded my today's project. Directional smoothed+constructed stone
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Stonesense/Content_repository#Terrain

@ Tundra, I am impressed! You really got how the terrain walls are working! And the sprites are very well done; on behalf of all of us, thank you

@ japa: As I've said before, I'm really digging the way your branch is heading. Can't wait to get this into the official release (like we talked about in private). How is performance going? Is the Allegro preview still a little sluggish?

Anyone wants to tidy it up, go for it.
I've tried to clearly comment the xml with which value is which wall, so most of the trial and error is done for you already.

also I wanted to get rid of a lot of the unnessecary overhang, but I'd need to be able to sort the diagonals out to prevent punching holes on the Unreachable side of things.
like this post:

Just say, "hypothetically" I wanted to set up a wall tile to be one sprite if adjacent to 3 or 4 walls (not counting diagonally), and another otherwise. Is this possible for me to set up with current stonesense? or would this kind of functionality destablize the program?

[Rose]

@ japa: As I've said before, I'm really digging the way your branch is heading. Can't wait to get this into the official release (like we talked about in private). How is performance going? Is the Allegro preview still a little sluggish?

performance is great!

from what I've seen, it seems to be comparable or better than current trunk.

[Dark_Tundra]

if you find a bug in this version, either PM it to me, or post it here.

I'm not sure it's a bug, but I'm not seeing any fog.

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[SHOW_FOG:YES]
[FOG_RED:0]
[FOG_GREEN:0]
[FOG_BLUE:0]
[FOG_ALPHA:128]

[Rose]

yeah, fog is currently not working, but it'll get done.

[Retro]

ok, I think I've gotten this to some level of stability.

I'm working on an experimental build that gives proper transparencies, resizeable windows, and TTF fonts.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1914

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Ooh, that looks fabulous. I was just about to take some Undergrotto screenies, too; having colour would be amazing. When I have time later today I'll test it out and let you know what bugs I find.

Edit- Works very well; my issues are that the 'i' key doesn't seem to be deactivating zone view, and the natural keypress-response time (or whatever it's called) is insanely fast, though I think you can change that in the init. As a side note, as nice as the new font (edit: yeah, mistyped the first time) looks, I liked the old one better :P But it's great that the capability's there.