New castle grapchics (?)

Post by **freim** » March 1st, 2006, 5:03 pm

Neoriceisgood wrote:I'd like to work on castles, but I don't feel like getting perspective and all that hassle I'd have to figure out done,

I can easily emulate Pekka's style otherwise though.

Then you can start by churning out concepts. You can use the current castle tile as a starting point, should help you along to get the pespective right. You don't need to make all the needed tiles and make everything fit to begin with. A lot of people can do that part.

I would like to see:
* Dwarven castle - in the style of the new dwarven village
* Orcish castle - pekka is working on this one
* Undead castle - I would like to see something dark with eerie green light like in the LOTR movies. Rip-off, but it's cool
* Drake Castle - no idea how this one should look
* A new encampment - either a new one, or a rewamp of this one

Post by **Neoriceisgood** » March 1st, 2006, 5:07 pm

I'll make the drake castle, considering drakes are my own faction to begin with

Post by **pekka** » March 7th, 2006, 11:49 am

I would do this, but I can't make changes to WML.

Post by **torangan** » March 7th, 2006, 11:53 am

I'd say no. Sunken castle sticking out of of shallow water is ok but in deep water it should be completely submerged and invisible.

Post by **Darth Fool** » March 7th, 2006, 12:19 pm

Yes they should be. A change is required to data/terrain.cfgs to get it to work properly. Unfortunately, I can't tell you right now what that change is, as I am not at a computer with wesnoth installed, but it is doable.

Post by **pekka** » March 8th, 2006, 11:34 am

yup. I did it now. I think it works properly.

Post by **freim** » March 8th, 2006, 12:03 pm

pekka wrote:yup. I did it now. I think it works properly.

Seeemed to work correctly, I commited the change.

Post by **Jetrel** » March 9th, 2006, 9:15 am

Hey, those ripples look cool! Nice work, guys.

Post by **pekka** » March 10th, 2006, 7:23 pm

Thanks. Here are some more ruin variations done. Not sunken yet, just the ruins. Convex-nw and convex-ne.

Post by **pekka** » March 11th, 2006, 9:28 am

...and here are the sunken versions of convex-ne & convex-nw. Only concave-ne & nw to go!

EDIT: Now that the ruin castle is nearing it's completion I've given a glimpse to the ruin keep graphics. There are ~90 keep ruin tiles which consist of 3 tile variations. Is it really relevant to draw that many variations for the ruin keep, which is still quite rare hex on the map? And it is time consuming..

Post by **freim** » March 11th, 2006, 10:54 am

pekka wrote:...and here are the sunken versions of convex-ne & convex-nw. Only concave-ne & nw to go!

EDIT: Now that the ruin castle is nearing it's completion I've given a glimpse to the ruin keep graphics. There are ~90 keep ruin tiles which consist of 3 tile variations. Is it really relevant to draw that many variations for the ruin keep, which is still quite rare hex on the map? And it is time consuming..

No, I would say one tile variation is enough. Don't use forever making all these variations, I can imagine it's getting quite tedious. The dwarven castle fx only has 2 keep tiles: a floor and the keep itself. Feel free to do the same. The ruins aren't used that much to justify making 90 tiles for it's keep alone imo.

I will commit these new tiles shortly.

Post by **pekka** » March 11th, 2006, 11:28 am

I'm not sure if understood completely what you ment when comparing current keep/castle and dwarven castle/keep tiles, because they are arranged in different methodology. Yet I understood that I can drop about 60 tiles from my update list. That is more than enough to me to understand..

Post by **freim** » March 11th, 2006, 11:34 am

pekka wrote:I'm not sure if understood completely what you ment when comparing current keep/castle and dwarven castle/keep tiles, because they are arranged in different methodology. Yet I understood that I can drop about 60 tiles from my update list. That is more than enough to me to understand..

I haven't looked closely on how they are arranged. What I ment was that maybe you could make it with the dwarven methodology, thus having to make just 2 tiles instead of 30. Not sure how that would work out though.

If you pop by irc we could look into it.

Post by **pekka** » March 11th, 2006, 8:59 pm

I sank the first four keep tiles. Now is the right time to influence to the upcoming sunken keep design, if there were something wrong/unfunctional/bad/negative in the tiles. Comments are welcome.

Post by **pekka** » March 12th, 2006, 9:07 pm

Ignore the previous post, I've polished the ripples of the earlier tiles. Almost the whole keep is sunken; 4 tiles to go in it anymore.