I mentioned it, in the midst of a general ramble[1], as courtesy. And, it seems, it'll be reciprocated.
It's a good (despite comments) Wiki. It's not one of those copious 'thrown together' fan-based-on-ad-platform ones that you often find at least one of for any given game[2] with any playerbase at all. You're never quite sure how authentic or supported/known about they are by the producers of the material and they may stretch 'fair use' quite far under the extreme cover of anonymity/pseudonymity.
For us, though, the Wiki contributors[3], or enough of the main ones, are closely associated with these very fora being run and operated by the developer. Though toes may not be trod upon, if they are then the main treaders aren't quite as discorporeal as in other cases.
I probably was less concerned by Tarn's attitude (without overly presuming) than by complications in the KitFox direction (though they seem to be hoopy-froods too, there's probably a lot of spidering legal framework surrounding the move that add potential landmines how everyone's expectations interlink) and so on.
In that, I'm now reassured somewhat. Short of the artists themselves (also shown to be hoopy-froods, though yet untested in this particular issue.
Relevent to the tileset discussion, the main body of the WikiThread ramble had me presuming it would be 'simpler' and less effort for selective graphics to be suitably compiled and donated direct by the artists[4] themselves. But I've not done the legwork to compile what
might be the current, or desired, list of demonstrative graphics already demonstrated in well-established pages.
There's definitely the "what bars/blocks and structures of a material look like" composite. Some principles (like bridges) are variously illustrated but not sure if non-figurative graphics are always needed. Probably a
representative dwarf (perhaps gender alternatives, maybe a mixed uniform/profession sampling) and the same with other sentient-races.
It seems excessive to do for creatures, etc, what the current "what this CodePage character is" listing gives - though it'd be truly handy, it'd be both dismissing the idea that you now
can tell what this particular "g" is on sight and force the release of effectively all of the Premium tiles (even if just restricted to the adult/both dimorphic adults, not child/zombie/etc).
I'm not currently asking for answers here (much more needs to be done, including the main Wikipeople making their own assessments of what
could be done) but I think it's now also fair that this Tileset Team be able to think about what may be asked of them (even if it's just passing the bulk of the work to the crowdsourced 'enthusiastic amateurs' with full blessings).
(And I'm glad it doesn't look like it isn't a case of "easier to ask forgiveness than for permission" and that the questions might better to have been not asked.)
[1] Par for the course!
[2] Or book series, film franchise, TV series, etc.
[3] Can't count myself among them. I have almost never found anything I can add or clarify that isn't already already catered for by the time I come across it, so I'm by far a net consumer.
[4] This following the suggestion that a representation of non-ASCII/non-Premium graphics could be a 'third' active display option, but that's a question for elsewhere.
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