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I really wanna make my own graphics pack, but gee it's so overwhelming, especially for a really novice pixel artist. I didn't pursue my tileset in classic yet because I was hoping for premium to make it easier to separate things like zeroes from coffins for example, and it did, but now it feels harder to figure out in that there is now a lot more sprites to make! So maybe I should stick with making a classic tileset, but if I do that, then I'll be stuck having to consider what things share tiles with what! I dont know what path to go down... any suggestions from more experiences people than I? Furthermore as an actual question, why do the statue image pages not line up 32x32 correctly? when I try to put them on a 32x32 grid, they have too much white space inbetween, anyone know why?
That white space is meant to be transparent. The image editor you are using is incorrectly identifying those pixels as white. I'm guessing that you are using Paint. You need to use a different editor that can properly handle transparency. I think Paint 3D should suffice.
Personally i'm looking forward to the Information features.IMO, what I look forward to a lot is the fact that clothes show on the dwarf, and finally dyes can be of some use now that they can be visually represented like that!
The current version of DF just isn't very good at presenting comprehensive information about your fort.
Ah! Thank you Dubya! I completely forgot to consider corpses... I really appreciate it!!!Because if so, I was wondering why other people don't use the dwarf and military dwarf tiles for a different object? Because the dwarves themselves will be replaced by the graphic set and won't show as the ascii art, right?
Right, but you can't override corpses, so your dead dwarves will be whatever that tile is. You can change the tile from [CREATURE_TILE:1] to whatever other tile you find suitable for corpses and delete [CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE:2] to get around this though.
Using those tiles for anything else requires editing the raw file of that object/plant. Some things do not even have a raw file (e.g. hives only have it as an item, not as a building)Mhm! I should really look into the raws of them more, figure all that out...
