Angband 64 x 64 pixel tileset

[Magnate]

Yay! Looking forward to that, even though it means painting more tiles

Will the new code perhaps be made so that you call for a specific image rather than calling upon a portion of a large tilesheet, when you want to display for example a specific battleaxe? In other words, moving from huge tilesheets, to separate images for everything? It might sound like alot of work, and I'll personally voulenteer to add all the filenames to the code, if that helps making it so

The two large areas of the code that I don't touch are the input layer and the display code, so I'm really not best placed to say - but it sounds like a sensible approach that ought to be adopted at some point. ISTR someone else mentioning it a while back on IRC, so there is definitely hope ...

[Shockbolt]

As a fun curiosity, this is not what I normally wear, but I dressed up like this for our local archery club, that luckily now has mostly longbow/horsebow shooters compared to the group of men in their 60s shooting composite bows a few years ago:

[Shockbolt]

Chests, unopened and broken. Would be cool to introduce a few new versions also, such as a dwarven stone chest or something similar or even specific tiny treasure boxes with puzzles required to open them?

[Magnate]

Chests, unopened and broken. Would be cool to introduce a few new versions also, such as a dwarven stone chest or something similar or even specific tiny treasure boxes with puzzles required to open them?

Go ahead - we often end up saying "oh we can't introduce that, we don't have a tile for it", so it would be nice to have spare tiles and be able to add stuff.

You are going to paint me a buckler, aren't you ;-)

[Shockbolt]

Buckler as in the tiny shield buckler? like this one:

Go ahead - we often end up saying "oh we can't introduce that, we don't have a tile for it", so it would be nice to have spare tiles and be able to add stuff.

You are going to paint me a buckler, aren't you ;-)

[Magnate]

Buckler as in the tiny shield buckler? like this one:

Lovely, thank you. Just what the doctor ordered.

[Shockbolt]

More Angband tiles:

[Shockbolt]

More Angband tiles:

[ekolis]

Your tiles are awesome... but is it just me, or do those scale mails look like they're made of FEATHERS?

[buzzkill]

Maybe it's the bright colors, but I can't hlp but think that the latest armours look kinda fluffy, as if made of feathers or cotton balls, leaves or pine cones . I didn't get that feel from the previous post (#367).

edit: ... and I never saw ekolis's post prior to writing mine. We must have been typing at the same time.

[Derakon]

It's because the scales aren't lying flat, but instead are sort of poofy. I'd guess it's difficult at that resolution to give the impression of scales while still having them lie flat; a "real" scale shirt looks something like this (real in quotation marks because it's a modern invention; ancient scale looked different).

[Shockbolt]

Yes, and painting scales that tiny (as seen in the example image provided by Derakon) would make it end up looking like a chain mail at 64x64 pixels and most certainly so at 32x32 pixels.

[Shockbolt]

it might help if I removed some of the scales that are pointing outwards at the edges of the tile, see the example below:

Here's the black dragon scale mail seen at it's painting size, 128x128 pixels:


Here you see the same scale mail with scales pointing less outwards at the edges:



here's the "regular" 64x64 pixel black dragon scale mail:



And here's the new version with less fluff:


This might or might not help to lessen the feel of fluff in the others as well, we'll see.

[ekolis]

Yeah, that is an improvement... still looks a bit feathery, but not as much!

[AnonymousHero]

Removing the "spikes" completely at the edges might be even better.

(EDIT: Redundant text is redundant.)