Angband 64 x 64 pixel tileset

[takkaria]

Some monster tiles are larger than 64x64:

Do you have any idea how large a PNG file that includes all your tiles would be? Maybe we should add the ability to store tiles in different files if they're massive.

[Blue Baron]

Thanks so much for your work here! I'm going to test it out and see if I can get it working for me (on Linux using Mingw cross-compilation and WINE).

I will try to figure it out myself, but if you get this can you list the actual DirectX headers I need to include? Are they just d3d9.h and d3dx9.h?

Thanks again...

the headers in my external dependencies list are:
basetsd.h, d3d9.h, d3d9caps.h, d3d9types.h, d3dx9.h, d3dx9anim.h, d3dx9core.h, d3dx9effect.h, d3dx9math.h, d3dx9math.inl, d3dx9mesh.h, d3dx9shader.h, d3dx9shape.h, d3dx9tex.h, and dxfile.h. I hope this helps.

Also I downloaded libPNG. It doesn't seem that it will be that difficult to do the same thing with it. (Make another drop in replacement for ReadDIB() that copies the data to a GDI bitmap.) I will work on it as I have time.

[Blue Baron]

I did not know that the png had an alpha channel. I will write another function that will write both the color and mask bitmaps, but it won't be a drop-in replacement for ReadDIB.

[Shockbolt]

Do you have any idea how large a PNG file that includes all your tiles would be? Maybe we should add the ability to store tiles in different files if they're massive.

I suspect the easiest way would be to store each tile individually, that's the way they're stored right now. As they're painted in 64x64 sizes(some being taller than 64pixels), having 20x20 tiles would give you a 1280x1280 tilesheet.
If you can come up with the option to have each tile stored separately, I could add in the filenames to the code, for the appropriate creature/wall/object/item myself as I go along painting them.

If not, then we'd have to take the current bmp tilesheet and roughly multiply it's size with 2 to find out the new png tilesheet size for my tiles.

[Shockbolt]

More tiles:

[Shockbolt]

A 128x128 tile, the way they're painted before scaled down to 64x64:

[ilurk]

Kudos

Inspired to register to post this.

Just wanted to say, as someone who has been playing angband since before it was angband (moria) I would absolutely love to see this realised. These tiles are beautiful!

[Shockbolt]

Inspired to register to post this.

Just wanted to say, as someone who has been playing angband since before it was angband (moria) I would absolutely love to see this realised. These tiles are beautiful!

thanks ilurk!

[Nolendil]

I'm part of the die-hard ascii-only Angband players but your tiles are really great and caught my attention.
I don't really like the stone walls though, but otherwise... wow!

And I loved that post:

And for the oldschool players :

It reminds me of some designs I was working on to make an ascii-like tileset.

[Shockbolt]

I'm part of the die-hard ascii-only Angband players but your tiles are really great and caught my attention.
I don't really like the stone walls though, but otherwise... wow!

And I loved that post:

It reminds me of some designs I was working on to make an ascii-like tileset.

Thanks Nolendil, which stone walls are you referring to? The ones in the first images posted in this thread?

[Shockbolt]

More freshly painted tiles:

[Shockbolt]

and more, a bunch of larger tiles also:

[Shockbolt]

And more tiles, some of them might have appeared before in one of the previously posted previews:

[Shockbolt]

More tiles, yesterdays produce:

[pav]

Do you have a legend who is who on these? I wonder especially about the slutty azure robe shaman-ness. Also about the solar system tile from the #163 post - what Angband monster that maps to?