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[Vince]

Worse, but that may be the texture's noise.

[Ironhand]

[MiniMacker]

I was about to give you a 'meh' until I saw the depth. It appears my head has gone *a-pop*.

[dennislp3]

Cool!

Here it is in grey, with the original texture overlaid:

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Better? Worse?

I would say you need to be careful with that because if things have a grey filter over em telling certain things apart from eachother can get hard. A good example would be when sifting through large lists with lots of white and grey words (such as in the description of a character even) because it makes it harder to just look at some things at a glance when they both share a common color base or overlay (grayed over slightly) thus requiring an occasional double take. I personally like the previous (non greyed) one you have about 2 posts up from this one....then again I haven't seen them in action. Either way they are both beautiful

The water/magma is also amazing...

[Ounce]

The textured gray font looks much better. Awesome, in fact!

The water is pretty great too. I love the swirly tiles. Having depth shown visually is also pretty wonderful.

[WormSlayer]

I was about to give you a 'meh' until I saw the depth. It appears my head has gone *a-pop*.

Wait until you see it swirling off the edge of a waterfall

[Bandages]

Dat water.

[dennislp3]

this is by far the best graphics set I have ever seen >.>

just saying...

and the fact that its only like...half done or so? wow

[Ironhand]

Thanks!

Yeah, it's a work in progress.

[Harmonica]

Looks nice and sharp and readable now I prefer the non-textured version myself (but I also liked the font you were using in the current tileset, even though it wasn't as clean and easy to read). Maybe a texture could still work?

[Ironhand]

I'm gonna stick with the shiny one for now (the one that most of you are saying you like).
But the thing about the new version is that we'll be using a completely different sheet for text.
So if I'm right and that's how it's gonna work, you'll be able to switch out the font set
for whichever one you like (some people like Sphr's font, or whatever),
without having to mess with my tileset.

[Harmonica]

If that's true and we're getting two separate sheets, what's stopping them from separating the graphics out even more. Rocks, soil and ground tiles on one sheet, vegetation on another, made objects on a third, and so on..

[Ironhand]

Because this isn't full graphics support.
Graphics aren't really being segregated out.
Rather, graphics are being separated from text.

[Cruxador]

I'm gonna stick with the shiny one for now (the one that most of you are saying you like).
But the thing about the new version is that we'll be using a completely different sheet for text.
So if I'm right and that's how it's gonna work, you'll be able to switch out the font set
for whichever one you like (some people like Sphr's font, or whatever),
without having to mess with my tileset.

That's not a super accurate representation of how it's working. It's actually significantly better than that sounds. We are moving away from graphical fonts entirely, and instead will be using TrueType. A .ttf, and not something that's recognizable as a sheet, in the sense that we know it. A whole 'nother kettle of fish for folks that want to make things, with vectors and kerning and all that jazz. Unless that option is disabled in init.txt, of course. But it essentially means that you have all the tiles which were previously used as letters to play around with, and text will be determinable entirely separate from tilesets, and will look better. And it will also enable the switching out of fonts independent of tilesets.

[carebear]

That water... DF graphics are going next-gen!