Desert environment

Post by **freim** » January 8th, 2005, 4:57 pm

Another try at tents:

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » January 8th, 2005, 5:06 pm

Looks nice.

MRhe · Post by **MRhe** » January 9th, 2005, 8:08 am

Much better. I'd love to see a desert campaign or some good desert multi maps.

Post by **Jetrel** » January 9th, 2005, 9:31 am

frame wrote:Another try at tents:

A definite improvement. I would suggest a slight "hardening of the edge" on the specular highlighted bit to the lower left on the tent. All the other edges look great (in fact, better than a lot of other stuff in the game). I like your style of sprites, really, and I can appreciate that you know how to take advantage of the technology we have available to us, rather than making yesterday's sprite-based videogame.

By "hardening of the edge," I don't mean the silly and bad-looking sprite edges of yore, but I mean to add a slightly darker bit right underneath the lit edge, and carefully so. If you post a PNG, I can take a shot at it.

Again, many, many thanks for making this.

vartagh · Post by **vartagh** » January 9th, 2005, 9:45 am

very very cool

Post by **freim** » January 9th, 2005, 12:14 pm

Jetryl wrote: By "hardening of the edge," I don't mean the silly and bad-looking sprite edges of yore, but I mean to add a slightly darker bit right underneath the lit edge, and carefully so. If you post a PNG, I can take a shot at it.

Here you go:

Post by **freim** » January 9th, 2005, 1:20 pm

With the desert mountains I decided to do them a bit different than the regular mountains (apart from the obvious differencies). This was outline and size. I went for a softer outline, both because I think it looks better and because it fit better with the desert hills.

I used the regular hills as a template when making the new ones and first I made them the same size as them, but then decided to make them quite a bit larger. I think this turned out quite well. Mountains should be large and majestic I think

Also it looks far less "busy" when there are large areas of mountain tiles. With a larger size they also distinguish themselves from hills by size in addition to coloring.

A quick comparison:

I had a few thoughts on this. Firstly it could be cool to make larger variants of the regular mountain also. The desert mountains could also be re-colored and adjusted to make snow mountain tiles.

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » January 9th, 2005, 2:02 pm

Your mountain tiles are looking much better
they look much more in combination like a real mountain

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » January 9th, 2005, 7:19 pm

The transitions are impressive too.

Post by **Jetrel** » January 9th, 2005, 9:12 pm

frame wrote:I had a few thoughts on this. Firstly it could be cool to make larger variants of the regular mountain also. The desert mountains could also be re-colored and adjusted to make snow mountain tiles.

Yes. I would actually go much further. Make them WAY bigger.

We have support for multiple-tile terrains, and though we would need rocky bits of normal mountain tiles to fill in the single tiles, it would fit perfectly to have much larger mountains as well.

It would be a big piece of work, but it would look *amazing*.

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Anyways, here is the tent edge. A subtle change, but one that I think really helps.

aelius · Post by **aelius** » January 9th, 2005, 9:21 pm

Most impressive. I can't wait to use them!

- b.

Post by **freim** » January 12th, 2005, 9:13 pm

Made an oasis

Also finished a bunch more transitions, getting closer to begin commiting.

Post by **turin** » January 12th, 2005, 10:49 pm

Is oasis just randomly placed on desert tiles? It looks different enough to be a separate terrain, but i'm not sure what...

Invisible Philosopher · January 12th, 2005, 11:18 pm

turin wrote:oasis [...] a separate terrain, but i'm not sure what...

Village!

Post by **quartex** » January 12th, 2005, 11:19 pm

Nice Oasis. But I don't think it should be a random desert tile. I'd make it an alias of shallow water.