Angband 64 x 64 pixel tileset

[Shockbolt]

Item set, made from various parts of dragons:

[Shockbolt]

And for the oldschool players :

[Nick]

And for the oldschool players :

Awesome - Angband has been needing a Plumber class forever

[Shockbolt]

Hi Shockblot

These tiles are awesome. I really really hope you finish them - no small task tho!!

You can see from the number of posts I make, I'm not an avid poster - but commenting on your tiles was non-optional imho!

Thanks for the nice feedback!

[Blue Baron]

Hi I play z+Angband and modified it for my own use. One of the changes I made was to use different tilesets easier. I did two things. First, I added a new command to pref files: I:<elementwidth>:<elementheight>:<filename>{:<mask filename>}. Second I added $GRAFC <number>, so I don't have to add names of files in bunches of places, and just use the number in use_graphics directly.

Using these I do not have to recompile to add new tilesets. I edit graf-win.prf to add :
#Resized David Geravis' tiles
?:[EQU $GRAFC 6]
%graf1213.prf

graf1213.prf is just:
%:graf-dvg.prf
I:12:13:12x13.bmp:12x13msk.bmp

lastly in the ini I change the Graphics line to:
Graphics=6
(the hard coded constants are 0-5)
this does not allow the tile set to be selected from the menu, but it does work. (it would require a recompile to add the menu selection.)

I have not compiled V, but to implement you might want to:
in variable.c and externs.h add some global variables:
char graf_name[32];
char graf_mask[32];
byte graf_width;
byte graf_height;

in main-win.c in init_graphics() add/change:
if (graf_width && graf_height)
{
wid = graf_width;
hgt = graf_height;

name = graf_name;
if (strlen(graf_mask) > 2)
{
mask = graf_mask;
use_transparency = FALSE;
} else {
use_transparency = TRUE;
mask = NULL;
}
}
else if (arg_graphics == GRAPHICS_DAVID_GERVAIS)

since the pref filese are loaded in reset_visuals(), need to reset the variables in reset_visuals and call reset visuals() after init_graphics().
in main-win.c in Termxtra_win_react() change the section between /* Initialize (if needed) */ and reset_visuals(TRUE) to:

/* Change setting */
use_graphics = arg_graphics;

/* Reset visuals */
reset_visuals(TRUE);

/* Initialize (if needed) */
if (use_graphics && !init_graphics())
{
/* Warning */
plog("Cannot initialize graphics!");

/* Cannot enable */
use_graphics = GRAPHICS_NONE;
/* Reset visuals */
reset_visuals(TRUE);
}
the equivalent work for z+, but it does not have the use_graphics_nice option, so I do not know where that should go for V.

in main-win.c in Term_pict_win() there are 3 if blocks with arg_graphics==graphics mode. the first one should be changed to if (infMask.hBitmap) the secondand third should be if (hdcMask)

in obj-util.c in reset_visuals() add in or above if (use_graphics) :
graf_width = 0;
graf_height = 0;
graf_name[0] = 0;
graf_mask[0] = 0;

in prefs.c in init_parse_prefs() add:
parser_reg(p, "I sym ew sym eh str name ?str mask", parse_prefs_i);

in prefs.c in process_pref_file_expr() add/change:
else if (streq(b+1, "GRAF"))
v = ANGBAND_GRAF
else if (streq(b+1, "GRAFC"))
{
/* temp string is another global variable I created since I
* did not know of a better one to use */
strnfmt(temp_string, 32, "%d", use_graphics);
v = temp_string;
}

in prefs.c add:
static enum parser_error parse_prefs_i(struct parser *p)
{
struct prefs_data *d = parser_priv(p);
assert(d != NULL);
if (d->bypass) return PARSE_ERROR_NONE;

graf_width = (byte)parser_getint(p,"ew");
graf_height = (byte)parser_getint(p,"eh");
text_to_ascii(graf_name, 32, parser_getstr(p,"name"));
if (parser_hasval(p,"mask"))
{
text_to_ascii(graf_mask, 32, parser_getstr(p,"mask"));
}

return PARSE_ERROR_NONE;
}

That should do it. hmm a serch through the code shows a bunch of references to GRAPHICS_DAVID_GERVAIS incave.c and one in spell1.c. these might be changed to use_graphics > 2 or 3 .

Phew. quite alot for my first post, but I hope this helps.
BTW, great tiles.
Also, about PNG support, it may be possible to use DirectX to load the image, then copy the data to a GDi bitmap. Perhaps just write and use a function called ReadDXImage instead of ReadDIB. I will give it a try.
Lastly, about the faced tiles, a solution may be to just do another pass at the end of dungeon level generation. as it goes through the map, is the tile is known to have facings (hard coded) test the surrounding tiles, and replace the center tile with the right faced tile. The generation functions will not have to know about the faced tiles. ie if the wall index is 56 just replace it after generation with 64-78 as appropriate.

[buzzkill]

Hi I play z+Angband and modified it for my own use. One of the changes I made was to use different tilesets easier. I did two things. First, I added a new command to pref files: I:<elementwidth>:<elementheight>:<filename>{:<mask filename>}. Second I added $GRAFC <number>, so I don't have to add names of files in bunches of places, and just use the number in use_graphics directly.

Am I missing something? What does this do that couldn't be accomplished by simply editing the first few lines of the angband.ini.

[Blue Baron]

Am I missing something? What does this do that couldn't be accomplished by simply editing the first few lines of the angband.ini.

the graphics = 3 ( or 0, 1, 2) line in the ini file refers to the graphics mode. there are also hard coded constants that use those numbers (GRAPHICS_DAVID_GERVAIS, GRAPHICS_NONE, GRAPHICS_ORIGINAL, GRAPHICS_ADAM_BOLT respectively) there aer several places in the code that use these constants by name. In main-win.c and the other main-xxx.c files the tile sizes and file names are hard coded using those constants. To change them or to add to them the entire program must be rebuilt. I added the I: line so only the pref files and the ini file have to be changed to use an additional tileset.

[Derakon]

DiretX is problematic for PNG support simply because it is not cross-platform. We'd be better off hooking into SDL or OpenGL or just accessing libpng directly.

[Nick]

DiretX is problematic for PNG support simply because it is not cross-platform. We'd be better off hooking into SDL or OpenGL or just accessing libpng directly.

The gtk, sdl and Mac ports already use png, though - it's pretty much only been the windows port that it's needed for. So if DirectX can be called (or whatever you do with it) in main-win.c, then (a) we can use Shockbolt's tiles and (b) we get to ditch .bmp files altogether.

Whether using DirectX like this is possible or not I have no clue.

[Blue Baron]

As Nick said, those three reference png files in their main-xxx.c files. However, the real reason I used DirectX is that I am familiar with it, I am not familiar with the others.

I have created a function that works for me in z+ 0.3.3. To use it add the function prototype somewher, perhaps in readdib.h or above init_graphics() in main-win.c. the funtion prototype is:

extern BOOL ReadDIB_DX9(HWND, LPSTR, DIBINIT*);

then in init_graphics() change all ReadDIB to ReadDIB_DX9
and add readdx9.c to your project. Also make sure the DirectX headers are in your include path, and link against d3d9.lib and d3dx9.lib.

If you want to replace ReadDIB() entirely (after testing this alot), remember that FreeDIB() in readdib.c is still needed.

readdx9.c if attached to this message as readdx9.txt

[Shockbolt]

How is the graphics handled on the mac os version of angband? Are the tiles separate or fetched from a tilemap, like on the win bmp version?

[d_m]

then in init_graphics() change all ReadDIB to ReadDIB_DX9
and add readdx9.c to your project. Also make sure the DirectX headers are in your include path, and link against d3d9.lib and d3dx9.lib.

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...

[takkaria]

How is the graphics handled on the mac os version of angband? Are the tiles separate or fetched from a tilemap, like on the win bmp version?

It's a tilemap PNG file, with transparency included. Everything apart from Windows uses a PNG tilemap.

[Shockbolt]

Some monster tiles are larger than 64x64:

[Shockbolt]

The same goes for this one, some of the tiles are larger than 64x64 pixels: