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Moddable; yes, easier to edit the raws; no. Still easier than using TWBT though.
Yes, transparency is supported.
Animations to a certain degree are possible, although I stopped working on SteamDF before that was finalized. Don't know if anything was done in that regard, but in theory it can work.
Male/Female: Yes, or to be more precise: Caste specific sprites work.
Adjacency: Yep.
Masterwork features: None (never asked to have any included), TWBT features: Pretty much everything and a lot more.

Awesome. Guess I should be making natural wall categories then, similar to constructed walls, not one-tile boxes.

Huh. Well, me neither these last few months.

I just read up a bit. And oh no. There was drama. D: Just to make it clear to everyone: Meph asked for permission and has credited me (which wasn't necessary, as pointed out in my first post). I'm grateful that my sprites saw the light of day in a playable version.

A lot of the graphics innovations that tilesets have now is because of his experimentation with the raws and mifki's TWBT. And I (and probably a lot more people here) owe a lot to Masterwork and Meph answering questions. I'm not taking sides and I hope it all settles down, but I appreciate you, Meph, and what you've done for the modding community. <3

Hi all. Here I am again, much older and still too stupid to mod DF code. LOL

I had another fey mood last year and during that time, I managed to accomplish quite a bit in terms of constructed buildings, soil and rock types, items, and creatures for the 32x "Granite" tileset. This is in addition to the already more or less complete plant graphics I did years before; and some polish to already completed item graphics. But given that I've completely forgotten how to mod them into the raws/TWBT, I lost interest again soon afterward.

Here's a preview of what I managed to accomplish thus far:


I'm still broken over the fact that rock and soil tiles don't follow the same adjacency rules as walls and floors. So I opted for a somewhat isometric representation of rock/soil/tree layers. However, given that I could not test them ingame, I have no idea how they will actually look like.

That said, I did complete the 32x animal and creature sets that I started way back in 2017. And that's what I'm here to offer. Just in case anyone is interested.

These include all animals (including giant and animal men versions) rendered in a cohesive artstyle. All of them are accurate to their actual descriptions in the raws and/or their real life appearances. It also includes domesticated and war-trained tiles for animals which are currently able to be domesticated; and child tiles for those which have them. They are arranged alphabetically, not by biome.

I can't post raws here directly due to the character limit. You can see them at:
graphics_Granite_animals.txt : https://pastecode.io/s/4xfhqpgq
graphics_Granite_humanoids.txt : https://pastecode.io/s/kipmxdzq

Note that I'm not sure if the raws will even work with the current DF version. These were made using last year's raws. The tiles are also designed to have a transparent background (via TWBT). They might need tweaking for tilesets which do not support it.

Granite_animals.png


Granite_humanoids.png


I've also included tiles for forgotten beasts, titans, demons, and night creatures below. But these are randomized in-game. So in most cases they won't match in-game descriptions.


I release these animal/humanoid tiles under CC-BY. You are free to use them in your own sets or modify them to your needs. But please credit me at https://www.artstation.com/obsidiansoul. 

This was a massive undertaking (these are all hand-made from scratch, literally pixel by pixel) and ate up a lot of my free time. Sadly, I'm a broke artist and I'm currently busy working (on a 3rd world salary). So I don't know when I'll be able to pick it up again. I still hope I can finish it before the Kitfox release.

Also, I once balked at doing this, but needs must. If you're swimming in money and won't miss a few bucks, you can donate to my PayPal here. This is completely optional, and you can still use my art with just the credit. Also, donate to bay12 of course.

I'm literally just finding out about this now. An official tileset! Real graphics! I'm jumping up and down in excitement

Experiments with soil, smoothed, and engraved floors and walls. The floor might still be too dark. Though not sure if that's just because of the material.

lol Final Fantasy 1:

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If I could get that games tileset and figure out how to force it into DF... I'd be happy and could go ahead and die.... otherwise I will live forever and its all your faults...jk...

now someone is going to point me to a FFI mode from 10 years ago with a full tileset lol.

but yeah great work on the tileset.  I'll go back to watch mode lol.

Yep something like that, though DF lacks transition tiles between two different ground cover, which makes it difficult to appear natural. My solution so far to that was to make all grasses be one color. Still not enough, but it helps reduce visual clutter.

Quote from: Obsidian Soul on May 10, 2017, 10:06:48 pm

Oh if only.  Not isometric but just top down, since the game can't support anything else. But as close as I can make it to traditional jrpg aesthetics, yes.

Have you seen this? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138754.msg7390751#msg7390751 Currently it's just an experiment though and not in public TWBT release.

  Overlaps? Yes, please. LOL.

But too much to think about for now. I can modify this once that feature is fully functional and this tileset is finished. XD

Quote from: Obsidian Soul on May 09, 2017, 04:53:30 am

As for the number of tiles, I don't know the actual number but ideally, everything that can be overridden. Some tiles are reused with just a change in the bg color (especially plants), but most will be unique. I'm even planning to have the directional wall-like tiles for unmined rock faces and river flows, though I'm not sure if that is even possible (though the override list seem to indicate it is). I'm completely rubbish at deciphering the raws, much less the code. I'm just an artist, which was why I gave up before. I'm already dreading having to organize everything and make sure the raws point to the right tiles.

You can use "probe" plugin/command to find out tile type if needed. You're interested in "tiletype: X" line, and then you can execute "lua ~df.tiletype[X]" with that number to get the tile type name that should be used for overrides.

That just saved me a ton of time looking all over the forums for how to do that. Very much appeciated!