Desert environment

Post by **freim** » January 7th, 2005, 5:43 pm

Some time ago I got the idea of making gfx for "complete" climatic zones could be cool to expand the variation of the terrain in Wesnoth.

I have been working a while on a desert environment. The goal was to make tiles that fit well together, but not necessarily with every other tile in the game. They are more suitable for campaign/scenario/map designers that want something a bit special than for random maps and such I guess.

So far I've made:
- Desert tiles
- Desert hills tiles
- Desert mountains tiles
- Some villages (the tower is multihex)
- A few specials (mostly vegetation)
- A desert castle (just the basic shape, no details yet. The keep is just a placeholder gfx at the moment)
- Savanna tile (grass)
- Tropical forest (only a test tile yet, doesn't look very good).

I'm kind of undecided on the castle yet when it comes to coloring, towers and keep.

The perspective is different on these villages than the current ones. It was meant to match the castle, but it ended up somewhat off. Need to fix that...

Still has a lot of stuff to finish, including a gazillion transitions *sight*

Mkgego · Post by **Mkgego** » January 7th, 2005, 6:01 pm

THEYRE SOOOO COOOOL...

The houses remind me of C&C :S

... ^^

Disto · Post by **Disto** » January 7th, 2005, 6:08 pm

Nice, the castle, make it more sandy so that it looks like it has had sand blown into it. Definetly keep the towers very rounded as thats what real sandy countries had (smart gits).

scott · Post by **scott** » January 7th, 2005, 6:17 pm

Amazing! How about a door for the keep?

Shade · Post by **Shade** » January 7th, 2005, 7:27 pm

Very Good. Tropical Trees!!!!! I have need for tropical trees!!!! Yay! New Toys!!! Yay!

scott · Post by **scott** » January 7th, 2005, 8:03 pm

The perspective of the double-tent village is messed up a little by their positioning and relative size. It looks like the second one is on top of the first one. I don't know what to suggest to fix it... maybe shrink it or flip it on the vertical (so it faces right) and lower it behind the first one.

Post by **freim** » January 7th, 2005, 9:04 pm

scott wrote:Amazing! How about a door for the keep?

I plan to replace it... with something that has a door

scott wrote:The perspective of the double-tent village is messed up a little by their positioning and relative size. It looks like the second one is on top of the first one. I don't know what to suggest to fix it... maybe shrink it or flip it on the vertical (so it faces right) and lower it behind the first one.

Yeah, it looks a bit weird. I'll try out some different stuff.

Post by **Jetrel** » January 7th, 2005, 9:55 pm

Thank you.

Seriously, a number of people have been clamoring for this for some time. This is a major new gob of paint on our palette for making campaigns (ex: Benj's desert level in SOTBE). Beautiful work.

Shade · Post by **Shade** » January 7th, 2005, 10:02 pm

Jetryl wrote:Thank you.

I'll second that. I have need of those tropical trees in two scenarios (The tropical island ones)... Thank you very much!

Post by **quartex** » January 7th, 2005, 11:15 pm

Thank you. I'd love to see these tiles included with 0.8.9. Can you post attachments with the tiles and transitions. I made placeholder artwork for a desert tent village and desert sand dunes, but these look a lot better!!!

Post by **freim** » January 7th, 2005, 11:29 pm

quartex wrote:Thank you. I'd love to see these tiles included with 0.8.9. Can you post attachments with the tiles and transitions. I made placeholder artwork for a desert tent village and desert sand dunes, but these look a lot better!!!

I will probably start to add some of it this weekend. I just need to add some more transitions and finish things here and there first.

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » January 7th, 2005, 11:50 pm

Shade wrote:
Jetryl wrote:Thank you.
I'll second that. I have need of those tropical trees in two scenarios (The tropical island ones)... Thank you very much!

I'll second that too. I can use it too make Morogor look more like a place drakes would inhabit.

One problem: where will you get the terrain letters for all of these tiles?

Post by **Dave** » January 7th, 2005, 11:53 pm

MadMax wrote: One problem: where will you get the terrain letters for all of these tiles?

There are over 70 letters and symbols, and we don't use anywhere near all of them.

Even if we run out, we can consider resorting to using binary...

We could, of course, also consider moving to two-characters per tile, but that'd require code changes.

David

pg · Post by pg » January 8th, 2005, 5:27 am

Looks superb! Good work.

MRhe · Post by **MRhe** » January 8th, 2005, 9:06 am

Amazing! Really well-done and these provide some excellent terrain for the erstwhile unused "desert" theme. Very, very quality work.

But yes, the tents tile looks funny...perhaps offset the top one so that it's on the side, or have two tents facing the same way. Other than that, very nice job.

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