I’m back, work continues! In today’s stream I’m fixing ‘broken’ tileset source file, restored stuff from backup file (stream in Russian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTmyBY03wc0
Powerwyrm also returned from voyage, so updates are coming!
Slowly, like little snails we would make our progress to the New World 😉
All this month I’m at travel, so can’t work atm. But in 2 weeks I’ll come back and there would be a lot of updates!
Also Powerwyrm going on vacation for 2 weeks too. So till summer there won’t be much updates, sorry guys 😉
Work status: right now I’m creating new habitants of wilderness – animals and birds. Also all townies and NPC on daylight surface would have new lvl scaling – so each town would have it’s own special dwellers.
After I’ll finish with NPCs (at least just a couple of them), I’ll come back to creating new locations.
Dreams come true 🙂 First day result:
Soon I’ll update server with new maps! A week (I hope) left.
Gamedev process in my instagram – scroll photos to the right by arrow to see from 1 to 9:
I’ve made this pictures several weeks ago; they illustrated the idea about custom towns/locations and show how locations could be connected. Also I’ve thought about first location 🙂
I’m on travel atm and had @#$% connection for several days. Now it’s become better, but I got ancient notebook which can’t handle my .PSD file.. Anyway, today I’ve managed to finish port to Tiled, so tomorrow I’ll start drawing first location! It’s starting!
I’ve also included to tileset package some template files for tileset database designing. Link is the same; also added package to downloads section.
Tileset fragment
I’ve finished first version of my tileset which is based at beautiful David Gervais artwork.
This tileset made for Tangaria, which is powered by PWMAngband. If you would do some tweaking – this tileset could be used with most of *bands.
Package includes .PSD file with hex codes for mapping stuff, so it’s much easier to work with it. Also it includes tileset files and following PWMA files:
town_test.txt – start location with all terrain objects, useful for testing
terrain.txt – list of all terrains with properties
town_feat.txt – list of objects which could be used in towns
wild_info.txt – world map with town in center (all other is water)
town.txt – town list
town_empty.txt – empty town
LICENCE:
If you wish to use this tileset or artwork from it – please mention in your credits following names: (list of names constantly updating and enlisted there: Downloads section)
I’ll continue maintaining this tileset, so there would be new versions!
Download tileset with config files
UPDATED: .psd tileset (contain a lot of new stuff which I didn’t include to tileset package yet).
Past livestream with tileset work:
Recently we had 255 limit problem. Now it’s fixed in 1.3.0 beta 0!
@Powerwyrm:
– Allow more than 255 terrain types
– Fix some spell level errors
Considering 255 problem:
The reason is obvious: the terrain “floor d hills” is exactly number 256 in the f_info feature array. This means there is somewhere where feature is coded on a “byte” and doesn’t allow more than 255 terrain types. And I found the culprit:
struct square {
byte feat;
bitflag *info;
int light;
s16b mon;
struct object *obj;
struct trap *trap;
};
Everywhere else, feature index is coded on an integer. Vanilla code has the same “struct square”, so it must also happen in V.
Ilius updated TiledToAngbandExport tool: https://github.com/ilius33/TiledToAngbandExport
Now it’s possible to create new maps (with map/mask layers) in Tiled ‘on fly’ 😀 Good job!
