[tileset] .psd worksheet for tileset design

[tangar]

Gamedev stream and tileset worksheet

Today I've made my first �gamedev’ stream (in Russian this time, next would be in English), where I work with new Angband Online tileset:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4SNLGA3mM

During this stream I've showed my Russian friends how to work with Angband tileset and afterward I continued to work with AO tileset redesign.

Why I'm writing about it there, in dev section?

Because I wanna share my .PSD (photoshop) worksheet which makes work with tileset EZPZ. It's got guidelines with coordinates at separate layers and some new tiles from genious Gervais. Feel free to download worksheet at our website:

http://angband.online/download/

It's just a start, we'll make loads of updates and Shtukensia would draw new tiles - so be in touch This .PSD file would be updated.

So far the useful in this file is for example 'Rubble' tiles - they got proper background and also Shtukensia redesigned 'passable rubble' at last - feel free to add it to V-distributive or in any other variant!

And of course everyone are welcome to join the work with Gervais's heritage enhancement! Join Angband Online discord, lets do it together!

[Pete Mack]

While I don't like tiles personally, I do agree that they should be complete for the game. Kudos on this tangar. It is a worthy effort

[tangar]

Pete, thank you I'm also attached to ASCII and even developed ASCII-based 1-bit tileset, but I look at graphical tileset as the most effective way for roguelike genre popularization (and especially 'online roguelikes genre').

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Today I've made yet another stream, in English this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xqwYhD2aU

It was mainly demonstration of some possibilities to show how stuff works; at the end I've tested that tileset could be extended, so next time we would work at new, extended version together

[tangar]

YAES (yet another English stream):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f34h-1heBxs

- enlarged tileset height 2x and reassigned guidelines there
- added loads of new tiles

.PSD uploaded

[tangar]

great tiles: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index...s-tiles.27710/ (push SPOILER to see all stuff) , they got proper licence:

All of my resources are free to use as long as you credit me. It makes no difference to me if they are used commercially or not, so you may use them for any purposes. If you would like to edit them or submit on other website, also credit me please.

I suppose a lot of stuff from there could be adapted for Gervais tileset, especially - beautiful floor tiles.

[tangar]

Today's 4-h stream in Russian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBBc6RHBP4

Went through all Gervais' heritage and took main stuff for creating 'custom towns 'demo'.

.PSD updated

[tangar]

Past two streams was a few days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rr-qDj_-Yc (en)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOYIJyWpxk (ru)

.psd updated

Now everything ready for creating custom map - making a lot of backgrounds and creating differently shadowed objects for each of it.

I had a pause in development as I hurt my arm and couldn't work with a mouse. But I hope I'll be able to come back soon.

[tangar]

Back to work. Finished trees in Russian stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfBKfbeoAA

As for now I'm limited to 255 tiles in town_feat.txt, I'm 'planting' trees to grass, sand and snow only.. But it's ok for 'alpha' version; after some time I'll add more terrain types

psd updated

[tangar]

Finishing putting objects on the grass, stream in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_OYfIjiUnY

.psd updated

[tangar]

Finished grass' background objects.. Russian stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bipeS7BPWs

psd updated

[tangar]

This time it was 'floors', English stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3FvDe2BELA

psd upd

[tangar]

Walls (Russian stream):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1u1hh4MUG8

psd upd

[tangar]

Stream in Russian - finishing walls; preparing water and hills.. also started assigning stuff in DB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDqyz7-Afo

psd updated

[tangar]

Great news! Powerwyrm invented new revolutionary feature to enhance tileset! Now terrain would support 65025 different tiles (it was 255 before)!

Some explanation in past stream in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWSgwMmMqX0

Tileset size increased to 4096x4096 -> psd updated

[tangar]

Russian stream: adding new roads and fixing errors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTb3ZLWpQqs

Moar streams are comming psd as always...

Also I've started to add new tiles from public domain works.. There are loads of 32x32 tilesets there https://opengameart.org/art-search-a...24&Collection= and a lot of them are in public domain or with good licence (allowing to use for just mentioning artist).

For example, DCSS tileset are interesting to look into https://opengameart.org/content/dung...wl-32x32-tiles