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Oooo, thanks!

Oh, wow. That is COOL.
War polar bears. ^^ Yay.


Thanks for the heads up.
I will reformat a bit.

EDIT: On the other hand,
I think I'll not worry about it yet.
I'll definitely have extra tiles, since
I can reuse some skeletal graphics,
so I'll probably just fit them in wherever.

Still, the prospect of drawing armored dragons and bears and eagles excites me.

Alright!

I designed the critters sheet!
There's four tiles per critter, for
adult, child, zombie and skeleton.

The sheet (right now it's just text)
can be seen in the OP. It is very nice.

I know some critters don't have all of those,
so the sheet might get compacted down later.

But for now, there it is! That should cover everything.

Oh, and by the way...
There are llamas in my graphics set.
If you want my graphics, you get llamas.
I see it as kind of a signature on my art,
so you will take them and you will like them.

If they really, really bother you, you can
just erase that entry from your raws.
But who doesn't want llamas, seriously?

Llamas are awesome.

Awesome! Thanks!

That's exactly what I wanted to hear!

I'll add a screenshot section to the OP when I have some to show off.
For now I'm still waiting on the merge.

Here's a mockup that I posted a while ago, though.
It doesn't show off the tilemagic stuff, but you get the idea.

I'm patching together my graphics set, and I've got a couple quick questions:

First, does changing the order in which I define graphics mess anything up?
Like, if I cluster all the fish together, or order everything alphabetically?
Also, is there any problem with me using just one .txt file for all the animal graphics?

Second, I've noticed in other people's graphics sets, every once in a while there's a
graphics definition that is surrounded by (()) instead of by [].
I assumed that this was just a way of commenting out that entry.
Is this correct? Why is that done?

Thanks!

I've started sorting my RAWs.

There are a lot of critters.

186 different ones. Most of those with babies and undead sprites, too.

So maybe going on 700 different sprites.

I'm surprised at how many are fish, though.
Those can just use my tile for a now.

Haha, I actually did this for NWN1 once.

I never actually finished it, but I had reworked the quality system to use the DF symbols, and materials and stuff.
I also had a pretty complicated dismemberment and blood splattering system written up.

It was pretty cool.

I had grand plans of a changing dungeon that would add new rooms based on what you told them to dig, and stuff.

I'm sure I'll never go back to it now, though.