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[Tubal]

If the women don't have beards, they're not real dwarves

[buckets]

If the women don't have beards, they're not real dwarves

Unfortunatley, according to Toady that's how female dorfs look in this game. Small human women.

[Rose]

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[Kordanor]

Wow, that looks awesome!

[Greendogo]

Japa, is this from Stonesense?  If not, then what is it from, do you know?

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[Rose]

That was just some concept art.

[Mike Mayday]

Japa, is this from Stonesense?  If not, then what is it from, do you know?

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Old story. This is an artwork by Chris Hildenbrand from http://spriteattack.cator.de/ . I found some of his tiles and asked him if I could use them to make a Dwarf Fortress isometric mockup and he decided to make one too- also making new dwarf icons. That was back in the beginnings of DF 3d.

[Rose]

Okay, guys, I got a request:

I need effect sprites. This means the following:
        Steam,
        Mist,
        MaterialDust,
        MagmaMist,
        Smoke,
        Dragonfire,
        Fire,
        Web,
        MaterialGas,
        MaterialVapor,
        OceanWave,
        SeaFoam
Not all of these need separate sprites, but the ones I have right now are super sucky and only really work for stuff like smoke. fire and webs, etc, don't look that great.

drawing them at a larger than normal size is nice, as long as it's consistent.

[Sorcerer]

hmmm, I used to be a decent-enough spriter back in the bob and george days... can you give some examples of what you have and what you need and what the limitations are?

[Rose]

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Right now they're just particle effects, but they look pretty ugly. What I'd want to do is to have inique drawn sprites, either a single one that changes opacity according to the density of the effect, or a series of about 4 sprites or so that are chosen based on density

Material dust, material gas, material vapor, and web are all able to be colored by their material, so those need to be white.

[Dark_Tundra]

Do you have any blending modes other than alpha, such as screen? Or should these sprites all be made assuming alpha blending?

EDIT: Also, animations y/n. Maximum frame number? same as normal tiles at 6?

[Rose]

I have additive blending for sure. Animations are doable, any number of frames, since once I have sprites for these, I'm gonna hardcode them, since they need more customisation than the sprite system provides

[Dark_Tundra]

Here are some flames to get started, I'm still looking over the other effects to see what I can do.

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EDIT: and a web

[MaximumZero]

That looks really cool if you scroll down at a decent clip.

[Dark_Tundra]

An attempt at some mist:


I'll have to wait and see if I get inspiration on how to go about the other effects.

EDIT: I don't think I'm happy with that mist, I'll probably give it another go later.