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Been playing Mega Race lately to relive some nostalgia of my youth. Still as fun as I remember it to be.

Saw this topic, bought the game, played the hell out of it last night for longer than I planned. TD games are like crack to me :S Need to go ahead and download the other two since I bought em at the same time. I generally take the route of: set up base, get to a stable position, build up forces, march forth and destroy.

The first world you get to that has the thing orbiting it (forget the name of the planet offhand) I found pretty easy. Unrelated to that world, TERPs are awesome

PTW: may send in resume after my current contract is fulfilled.

This latest release was named by Kevin Granade, Azmodean to the 12th Bay. Deon's tileset has some minor flaws, which may have translated into SirHoder's when he incorporated Deon's tileset into his own. The NPC sprites being the most obvious. I don't remember if it was mentioned to Deon that the NPC sprites are pointing at the poppy tile, but it will be let known by this next evening and I'll post up a fix to change it to the proper tile once I have had some light R&R.

Darkmere: The flashlight bug is a known issue, thought that was taken care of as of last night though >.< If it wasn't please let us know.
Danv: No idea on vehicle related stuff, will have to wait for GlyphGryph, Azmodeon, or i2amroy to get on and answer

Quote from: GlyphGryph on September 03, 2013, 05:05:40 pm

As of right now it's trivial to switch by drag dropping some files and restarting the game and though.

   Trivial is having an option in the options. Dragging and dropping files is not trivial as it requires actual effort which can be messed up by accident. Of course I don't think it needs the options to be honest. Most people will find a tile set or just use ASCII and then stick with what they chose. Of course looking at how the data is stored it seems that the game loads the file tile_config.json and the images tile.png and tinytile.png so if you turned the variables that stored those paths into normal ones and let them be set in the options menu it would be easier and you could keep everything in the gfx folder (Ex I could have default.json default.png tinydefault.png as well as deon.json deon.png and tinydeon.png). Though I will stress that this is probably not needed.

I am planning to add this as part of the mod manager section, actually. I'll be moving things around in regards to tilesets and the json file. Right now, though, you can alter what tileset is pointed at by changing gfx.txt in the data folder. The paths in it assume that the path is relative to the application directory, so you'd write gfx/sometileimage.png in the image section and gfx/sometilejson.json in the json section. You can also have it work with additional nested directories. gfx/deontileset/deontiles.png and gfx/deontileset/deontiles.json

The mod manager will introduce a more graphical way of switching between tilesets added to the gfx/ folder, and will take the names of subfolders within it as the tileset names.

Edit (Addendum):
Along with being able to switch between tilesets more easily I plan to add the ability to stack like-sized tilesets onto one another with a sort of priority loading system. You may want to use Deon's tileset and json as a base, but maybe use someone else's vehicle or item tiles.

Yes, the most current experimental build will have the fixed citygen in it

City gen fix merged in, so now size 16 cities take only a few seconds to make instead of hours