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[Slye_Fox]

I sorely miss the swirly waters, I would love if they came back.  If it is an issue with people, it could even be an alternate choice, kinda like diagonal walls are now.

Just add them in yourself, it's easy to do.
Just use a program that can edit png's with alpha layer (eg; photoshop with the SuperPNG plug-in) and just replace the 1-7 number tiles with the ones you want (go back a few pages).
Also enable the show flow amounts in one of the int files.

[Greendogo]

Does anyone think it will ever be possible to have multiple graphics for the same tile type, say a wall, that would correspond to each possible set of surrounding tiles?  For instance, you have a wall that is diagonal with that visible jagged edge on the outer side in the unexplored area underground.  It would be nice, then, if the program selected the graphic that had black filling in that side toward the unexplored part.

It would be useful for all sorts of things, like curving the ground rim of a river or softening the change in grass colors.  It would basically allow people like Ironhand and Phoebus to eliminate all the square edges.

I could do a mock-up if anyone is confused about what I mean.

[KillHour]

Does anyone think it will ever be possible to have multiple graphics for the same tile type, say a wall, that would correspond to each possible set of surrounding tiles?  For instance, you have a wall that is diagonal with that visible jagged edge on the outer side in the unexplored area underground.  It would be nice, then, if the program selected the graphic that had black filling in that side toward the unexplored part.

It would be useful for all sorts of things, like curving the ground rim of a river or softening the change in grass colors.  It would basically allow people like Ironhand and Phoebus to eliminate all the square edges.

I could do a mock-up if anyone is confused about what I mean.

Baughn was talking about doing just this with "shader mode".  Unfortunately, he's been really busy lately and it's a ton of work to do something like that.

Anyways, progress!  I only have the transition tiles left.  Not really happy with the pillar tile, though.  Any suggestions?



PS:  I hope Ironhand doesn't mind me hijacking his thread for this.  I'm only doing walls, or I'd make a new thread.

[Morwaul]

Anyways, progress!  I only have the transition tiles left.  Not really happy with the pillar tile, though.  Any suggestions?

PS:  I hope Ironhand doesn't mind me hijacking his thread for this.  I'm only doing walls, or I'd make a new thread.

Since your hijacking his thread you might as well take a look at his pillar.  I think he hijacked it from Phobeus so if you actually use it you might want to make sure it is ok with them first

It was posted back on page 248 but here it is.

[BradUffner]

I sorely miss the swirly waters, I would love if they came back.  If it is an issue with people, it could even be an alternate choice, kinda like diagonal walls are now.

Just add them in yourself, it's easy to do.
Just use a program that can edit png's with alpha layer (eg; photoshop with the SuperPNG plug-in) and just replace the 1-7 number tiles with the ones you want (go back a few pages).
Also enable the show flow amounts in one of the int files.

Gotta pimp my TileGenie program here...  It was designed to do exactly this.  Link is in my signature.

[Blah]

Does anyone think it will ever be possible to have multiple graphics for the same tile type, say a wall, that would correspond to each possible set of surrounding tiles?  For instance, you have a wall that is diagonal with that visible jagged edge on the outer side in the unexplored area underground.  It would be nice, then, if the program selected the graphic that had black filling in that side toward the unexplored part.

It would be useful for all sorts of things, like curving the ground rim of a river or softening the change in grass colors.  It would basically allow people like Ironhand and Phoebus to eliminate all the square edges.

I could do a mock-up if anyone is confused about what I mean.

Baughn was talking about doing just this with "shader mode".  Unfortunately, he's been really busy lately and it's a ton of work to do something like that.

Anyways, progress!  I only have the transition tiles left.  Not really happy with the pillar tile, though.  Any suggestions?



PS:  I hope Ironhand doesn't mind me hijacking his thread for this.  I'm only doing walls, or I'd make a new thread.

I like how the tiles are clearly distinguishable

[KillHour]

Yeah, instead of fighting the grid system, I really wanted to show it off as a quasi-feature.  It kind of looks like something someone would draw up for a DnD campaign.  This helps with counting wall segments for symmetrical and planned designs too, since you don't have to hover the cursor over the wall to figure out where one tile ends and another begins.

[Lemunde]

Baughn was talking about doing just this with "shader mode".  Unfortunately, he's been really busy lately and it's a ton of work to do something like that.

Anyways, progress!  I only have the transition tiles left.  Not really happy with the pillar tile, though.  Any suggestions?



PS:  I hope Ironhand doesn't mind me hijacking his thread for this.  I'm only doing walls, or I'd make a new thread.

I really like the floors and the engraving design but the pixel gaps in the walls are a bit of an eyesore. I guess it's just a matter of taste but I don't like it.

Just a suggestion for something you might try to help make the pixel gaps blend better with the walls is adding low alpha borders around the wall tiles. It should look something like this:

[Lord Vetinari]

Just my guess, but I think that he made them to justify the gaps that you can't avoind in the diagonals.

It's fine to me, I actually never used a tileset with diagonal walls because I hate the zig zag required to have thick diagonals.

[KillHour]

I really like the floors and the engraving design but the pixel gaps in the walls are a bit of an eyesore. I guess it's just a matter of taste but I don't like it.

Just a suggestion for something you might try to help make the pixel gaps blend better with the walls is adding low alpha borders around the wall tiles. It should look something like this:

I'm worried about how this might look with the diagonal engravings, but I'll try it out when I get home.  Thanks.

[Vince]

Anyways, progress!  I only have the transition tiles left.  Not really happy with the pillar tile, though.  Any suggestions?

I love the clear and "runed temple walls" and D&D-ish look. Although I dislike those crenelation gaps.
Very nice! And I like the pillar.

Now I wish you could have several floor types in DF, so you can alternate between several styles (yours and Ironhand's) and thus tilesets.

[Greendogo]

@Baughn

Baughn was talking about doing just this with "shader mode".  Unfortunately, he's been really busy lately and it's a ton of work to do something like that.

Do you still intend to do this Baughn?  It would be like, the best feature ever!

[Aklyon]

Anyways, progress!  I only have the transition tiles left.  Not really happy with the pillar tile, though.  Any suggestions?

I love the clear and "runed temple walls" and D&D-ish look. Although I dislike those crenelation gaps.
Very nice! And I like the pillar.

Now I wish you could have several floor types in DF, so you can alternate between several styles (yours and Ironhand's) and thus tilesets.

Pretty much agree with this guy, I do.

[Lemunde]

Here, have a pot.  The default entry in the raws sets the graphic as the traction bench but it can be changed.

[gtmattz]

I sorely miss the swirly waters, I would love if they came back.  If it is an issue with people, it could even be an alternate choice, kinda like diagonal walls are now.

Just add them in yourself, it's easy to do.
Just use a program that can edit png's with alpha layer (eg; photoshop with the SuperPNG plug-in) and just replace the 1-7 number tiles with the ones you want (go back a few pages).
Also enable the show flow amounts in one of the int files.

Gotta pimp my TileGenie program here...  It was designed to do exactly this.  Link is in my signature.

Hey, thanks!  I will give this a try.  I had tried modifying the tilesets myself in the past, but I am by no means a graphics guru, far from it in fact, and ran into various annoying problems and gave up.