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Quote from: Igfig on February 22, 2011, 05:51:24 pm

I've been tootling around a bit in Adventure Mode of late, and I noticed a couple of tile inconsistencies.

Tile 34, the double-quote, is the hard-coded symbol for farmland on the adventure map, as well as the glowing eyes of certain creatures.  Right now, though, it's a bunch of woodworking tools (the tile is also used in the carpenter's workshop).  Would you be able to put together a tile that suits all three of its functions?  With a bit of Tile Magic, I bet you could make a pair of short vertical lines into crops, eyes, and tools hanging on a wall.

Tiles 137 (ë) and 154 (Ü) represent military elves and humans, respectively, but appear as ore tiles.  This means that dead human and elven soldiers turn into weird reddish splashes when they die.

Tiles 147 (ô), 148 (ö) and 153 (Ö) represent cauldrons, rings and bracelets, but appear as trees and ore.

Tile 196 (─) looks fine as an axle, but clashes with the other single-line tiles when used as part of a road, river, or border for something.

Tile 239 (∩) represents both hills and slabs, but resembles neither.

Reposting since I think this was missed.

Also, noticed that bogeymen need a change of both tile and graphic.  Right now they're just gems.

I had indeed missed that post! Still a bit preoccupied with real-world stuff, but will look at those tiles!

Nice! People often ask about mixing and matching tilesets

Maybe add an option to adjust the brightness? (Some people find our tileset a bit too dark.)

Hey, png of ore veins please?

Sorry man, been a bit busy, being ill and miserable!

Here is the most recent test sheet I have:

This is by far the very very best looking tileset in dwarves and goblins. The Trade Depot is ugly though, I almost don't want to build it :b

You mean the wheels in the corners? Bearing in mind that the tile is also used for several other things besides the trade post, what do you think it should be?

So I recently tried to "upgrade" to Adobe CS5...

But CS4 failed to uninstall properly, leaving GB's of shit all over the computer, and now both CS4 and CS5 both refuse to install; I think because they can still see some trace of the old install that I cant find O.o

It's a known problem and Adobe even make a tool for cleaning up broken installs. But I've spent days trying to fix it now, and it's starting to look like I have to reformat and reinstall :S

IH on a roll

I had another go at precious ore veins and it came out more like what I have in mind:

IF you get around to fiddling with this awesome little app again, I'm still having trouble selecting, by clicking the mouse, the last item on a page. Only really a problem for things that use more than one tile. (Is it possible to select the secondary tile using keys?)

Also still sometimes sets the odd background colour to black on load, seemingly at random on.

Also a small feature request: A way to re-load the tile sheets without quitting and restarting RTS?

Attempting to combine IH's ore tile, which I really like, with last nights attempt:

(Also using the correct material colours.)

That is some sweet looking tetrahedrite!I have tried several times to make nice crystaline shapes like that, but they tend to look like lumpy blobs when reduced to 18x18

I re-made the badlands cracked tile to make it actually tile seamlessly, here's what it looks like when applied to slate, shale and slade: