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[Solifuge]

I've seen similar things done with the tiles in Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced, with gorgeous results. It works especially well for creating textured walls (rough stone could be jagged on their vertical faces) and great for making grass look like a wild field with tufts of grass and plants, instead of a neatly mowed carpet of green.

I'd definitely support it, but it would require a significant ammount of artistic reinvisioning, and would interfere with how we currently draw edges to distinguish between floors on different Z levels. I'm thinking that we could create the same effect by only creating "extended dimension" tiles where we would have used black lines: we would use them for the outermost faces of any tile without adjacent tiles; IE for the topmost visible floor, and only on the outermost vertical faces. We'd include a dark outline in their tile design as well.

Basically, that would allow us to create more organic shapes (smoothed cobblestones actually potruding from the wall, etc.), while keeping illegally overlapping tiles to a minimum.

[Rooster]

How my tiles work in action:

[Mike Mayday]

Soli: yep, it does have it's troubles on the programmer's side, sadly.

Also: progressive fogging of lower levels. I don't know how I forgot to bring this up here. That is some very useful sh!t. Is that more or less easily programmable?

[forsaken1111]

How my tiles work in action:

Those look great!

[Rooster]

Thank you Mike and Forsaken!

I'll definitely be doing more.

[Lord Nightmare]

We NEED to decide very soon, sooner the better, what license to have all the stonesense artwork under.
Personally, I think it should be under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, but PLEASE pipe in if you have reasons for it not to be, or something better, etc.
(noncommercial might possibly cause problems if toady decides to use the artwork later)
But this needs to be done NOW, because we already have 7 or more contributors for artwork:
Solifuge
jonask84
kaypy
7¢ Nickel
IDreamOfGiniCoefficient
Talvara
frumpton

plus more artists lined up for possible inclusion in the next release:
Rooster
winner
Dante
1138
dyze
The13thRonin
tehmarken

and more yet offering services:
Fantastic Damage
lendrick

If we wait any longer this will become a licensing hell.

LN

[Grif]

We NEED to decide very soon, sooner the better, what license to have all the stonesense artwork under.
Personally, I think it should be under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, but PLEASE pipe in if you have reasons for it not to be, or something better, etc.

I think that one or Attribution Share Alike is ok for Stonesense; even if Toady decides to use this in any way the Attribution Share Alike allows commercial use IF the original creators are given credit.

[quinnr]

I think that that would be great!

I would be an artist, but I suck at Isometric art.

[CobaltKobold]

Lord Nightmare: A reason to be wary of which to choose is what code we're getting on the d# numbers...you can't merge different licenses, if a quick reading is correct

[Solifuge]

Spoiler: My First Stonesense HFS (click to show/hide)

The core team is meeting on Tuesday to settle a few of the loose ends. I'll make sure liscensing is put on the agenda too.

[CobaltKobold]

*considers* ...could alternately put the direction-view in the load segment area.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Thanks ot the hard work of Mephansteras, I know have some images of my two favorite forts.
ElderManor

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And CanyoneCastle

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Rose]

Huzzah! I have solved the vista and win7 transparency issues:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the graphics mode needs to be set to 32bit for it to work.

[Rooster]

Doodling around seeing how my cracked "rock" tiles overlap. Was supposed to be a rocky tile initially, but I'll scrap that and use it as a smooth wall.

[DennyTom]

@Rooster - Your grass is extremely awesome (maybe too dark, but still awesom). IMHO I do not like your stone tiles. There are too few details.