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[MatrexsVigil]

I downloaded the newest Mayday tile/game download from the site a few days ago.  I started creating a world and found that the tiles seemed very strange--they were completely full of color.  Like a river tile would be normal, except the area around the river part of the tile would be completely blue.  While making the game extremely colorful, I have a feeling there is a way to turn that off.

Are these new transparent tiles or something?  How exactly would I have to mod my Init file to get the game to resemble the previous Mayday tileset?  I thought maybe there was a Transparent [ON/OFF] somewhere in the Init, but I couldn't find it.

Please be specific with your advice, as I am not very familiar with modding/changing the Init, especially messing with tilesets and sizes.

Thanks!

[Mike Mayday]

It is a matter of the default tileset. Just change it to one of the other tilesets available in the download (there's a quick howto on the download page and a more specific instruction on the wiki).

[Chewykittens]

Ok, followup question, how would you go about changing a tileset which normally has a black background into a colorful one?

[forsaken1111]

Ok, followup question, how would you go about changing a tileset which normally has a black background into a colorful one?

It's explained on his website. Go into the ini file and change all instances of mayday.png to maydayMIX or maydayMAX.png.

[Chewykittens]

No, my screen is too small for the 16x16 tiles that Mike uses. (An aggravatingly close 1152 pixels wide)  So I use a 14x16 set w/ black background.  My question is, how do I change the background of any tileset from black to colored?

[forsaken1111]

Oh, sorry. I haven't had much sleep, and misread that. You'd have to ask mayday how he did it.

[RantingRodent]

You would replace the magenta transparent background of the tiles with a dark grey colour, that's all.

[Mike Mayday]

A PNG image with a half-transparent background works even better (That's how I did it). This has the advantage over a simple gray background in that it doesn't screw up inverted tiles (barrels, some menus).

[Chewykittens]

Thank you my game now has a tinge of color and my eyes are grateful to you.

[soul4hdwn]

funny it's the semi transparent background that messes up for me. everything is a blaring contrast between colors as the game wants to solidly color in everything it sees.

of course i already edited the background out and everything is fine.