Castle floor

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » July 29th, 2004, 8:21 pm

scott wrote:Maybe there is no solution. I agree the gray tiles look the best.

Randomly slightly tinted tiles.

Post by **Darth Fool** » July 29th, 2004, 8:25 pm

How about grey tiles, but add colored flags to the turrets?

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » July 29th, 2004, 8:28 pm

Darth Fool wrote:How about grey tiles, but add colored flags to the turrets?

But the turrets only appear at the edge....

Na'enthos · Post by **Na'enthos** » July 30th, 2004, 10:03 pm

I really like the 'plain' grey tiles.. would need no further decoration, IMHO.. but some could be made for variation, perhaps.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » July 30th, 2004, 10:13 pm

I agree that color somewhere is important for the floors. I don't know why people are reacting so strongly against the blueish version. Real rocks are hardly ever pure neurtal gray. Probably the best solution is to "randomize" the colors of the rock with various natural colors, but let brown predominate. There's no reason that a courtyard floor would be the same color as the walls.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » July 30th, 2004, 10:21 pm

Eleazar wrote:I don't know why people are reacting so strongly against the blueish version.

It looks so much 'brighter' than the walls. The walls look weird next to it.

Post by **Dave** » July 31st, 2004, 2:13 am

Personally I like Eleazar's blue stones.

David

Post by **Dave** » July 31st, 2004, 2:40 am

Dave wrote:Personally I like Eleazar's blue stones.

David

Or ermm in fact scott/frame's blue stones

David

Post by **quartex** » August 2nd, 2004, 4:04 pm

Scott's blue stones are nice.

Post by **Ayin** » August 2nd, 2004, 5:42 pm

There's still something I do not like in Eleazar's version, although I agree it is much better than the original castle floor. I still think it is too noisy, whether it is tinted in blue or not. Maybe contrast should be reduced?

scott · Post by **scott** » August 3rd, 2004, 2:57 am

Please refer to these castle tiles as frame's tile w/ [modification] to avoid confusion with the tiles I drew and those that Elezear (who otherwise does good work) has not yet drawn.

I have spent some time doing various permutations of colors. Interestingly, frame's original tile was random gray and blue spots. I no longer think blue tinted tiles are necessary. I made a gray-only version with reduced contrast that displays forbidden moves well but only outside. I don't know why... on PITD the forbidden moves are invisible, but for most other scenarios they show up, even VOD.

Please verify that forbidden moves show up on the gray only tiles. I no longer know what to think!
Is there be something in the game that causes this apparent change? Could it be a result of the day-night visual effects?

EDIT: PITD = plunging into the darkness; VOD = valley of death

Bander · Post by **Bander** » August 3rd, 2004, 4:01 am

You could put some blue and brown rocks in there so that you can tell how far a unit can move.

Post by **Ayin** » August 3rd, 2004, 4:43 pm

scott wrote:Please refer to these castle tiles as frame's tile w/ [modification]

Sorry, my bad.

I made a gray-only version with reduced contrast

I like it.

I think the problem of grey tiles not making any difference when greyscaled should be solved in code; I will try to do something about this.

Icekiss · Post by **Icekiss** » August 3rd, 2004, 5:22 pm

I think scotts latest version looks very, very good! Just perfect.

Enki made the suggestion to make the floor of the keep different from the rest. I want to add my vote for that. I think it would make castles look even better, and strengthen the graphical distinction between keep and the rest of the castle. Could be sth. as simple as just coloring the floor slightly different...

scott · Post by **scott** » August 3rd, 2004, 6:50 pm

Just an idea here... I don't think this improves signifcantly upon the safe all-gray version, but maybe it will spark some innovation.

The keep tile is a gimp-hack.