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[Splint]

I figured you would've used actual muskets rather than blowguns for humans.

[Meph]

I'm making two sets: Vanilla and MDF. Currently working on the vanilla set, because its hundreds of sprites less to make. Once that is done, I do the MDF stuff.

[Splint]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh, okay then. That makes sense. I dunno why I was thinking this was just for MDF.

Still, coming along very well. 

[Metaltooth]

I'm making two sets: Vanilla and MDF. Currently working on the vanilla set, because its hundreds of sprites less to make. Once that is done, I do the MDF stuff.

Ah ok!
I am excited to see the masterwork built tileset when its fully ready

[Dwarf_Fever]

Are we there yet?

[Meph]

Hahahahaha, no.

256 main tileset.

About 1500 tiles for items.

About... 0-50.000 (depending on how many I want to do) for other TWBT stuff and intelligent creature profession sprites.

About 1400 sprites for civ-creatures.

About another 600 sprites for fortress defense.

2000 sprites for mod creatures.

2800 sprites for vanilla creatures.

And then there are plants. And trees. And grasses. And stone types. And gems.

Obviously I'm not doing all of them, but it will take quite a while.

[urmane]

Find a way to script sprite creation.  Color changes, overlays, etc., can be done programmatically.

[Meph]

Wont help much. color changes and overlays I already do with different photoshop layers, they are quick.

I think I do civ-creatures, pets, procedual creatures, a 256 tileset, a text tileset and 1-2 256 item tilesets before I release anything.

[Nelia Hawk]

so do the "leather/chainmail/plate armor" sprites actually work depending what armor the guys wear? i guess that might be the whole "override" thingy to make this possible?

i wonder if the military commander can be identified easily in a squad... seems mostly he "just" has a golden belt that differences him from the others (and bigger shoulders i thinlk). but that is probably fine as overall the look of the sprites is not ridiculously crazy with full golden spike armor etc.

and yeah.. dont worry about completing the 50000 creatures or so... all the basic most used stuff first (looks amazing already).
nothing stops you to add a few more sprites every week though, if you are up to creating more for all the other stuff. who knows... maybe next year you got sprites for EVERYTHING

it will be awesome to have a "masterwork tileset" anyways.

[StevedaG]

when you are releasing that tileset?

[Dwarf_Fever]

Hahahahaha, no.

256 main tileset.

Hehe, well as much as I love MWDF, I'm pretty excited about you doing this tileset. There is a lack of larger sized, nice tiles, at least I have not found any really good ones yet.

[Nelia Hawk]

thinking about tilesets and sprites i got the idea of combat weapon effects... little weapon slashes or thrusts or hit sprites... similar to like comics or older rpgs did it.
the question is if it is possible to create them right... i.e. soundsense can read the log and throw out sounds if someone gets hit by a sword. but can "something" read the log and "find" the two entities that are hitting eachother and then adding a transparent "swordslash" sprite over the one who gets hit?

i guess they would have to be transparent (so they go over the other sprites?) for 8 directions (where attacker and the one getting hit stand next to eachother) and for each weapon type... i.e. dagger (a little slash or poke), sword (a larger slash), spear (a thrust?).
maybe even what type of attack it was.. i.e. getting hit by a spear end is a edged thrust and getting hit by the wood is a blunt slash?.

i.e. like these http://img10.deviantart.net/3801/i/2011/269/c/a/ichigo_skul_cald_effect_sprite_by_axellkl-d4azzha.png
of course not animated... just one sprite for each weapon... maybe if it would work out rotated depending on where the attacker is hitting from.
or this overlayed over who gets hit by a spear on each hit: http://img06.deviantart.net/c51b/i/2013/200/7/5/new_alucard_spear_by_esco1979-d6e9va4.png the left arrow-y effect.
or for a sword or axe one of these would appear: https://vxresource.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/slash_effect_002.png maybe sword the top left one, knife the 4th from the top left one, or axe the 2nd from bottom 1st from left or a halberd the 2nd from bottom 2nd from left.
or for a bite some animal teeth effect.
or a shield effect when a hit is blocked by a shield.
well just references to show what i mean.

basically you can see here in the first 20 seconds what i mean with combat effects over enemies etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllk28GN3Wk
sword slashes over the skeletons and hit bubbles over the character when the skeletons punch. (also, one way heroics is amazing )

maybe someone even knows of a mod that already tried this?

but maybe it would be "too much effects" in combat with people flashing 4 times a second or so... (if i remember that undead cat fight in my human outpost that went forever with 4+ hits every second or so...)
but it might also look nice when a squad charges and you can see who gets hit without checking the reports screen...
well just a random idea.

[Meph]

Animations are not possible.

[Dirst]

Animations are not possible.

I wouldn't say "not possible," but it would be an effort on the scale of TWBT.  In other words not feasible at all, and certainly out of scope for Masterwork.

[jecowa]

I don't suppose Dwarf Fortress can play animated PNGs.