Brown Like Bears Tileset [Edit of Retrodays] Another version!

A_Blitzkried_of_Butt · 2016-07-24T21:16:40.000Z

Thanks for such a quick update!

Grandpuh_Ty · 2016-07-29T22:44:04.000Z

Man it feels real good to be using this tileset again. Thank you again for updating this

Meloman · 2016-08-06T14:34:35.000Z

Stylish, clear, cute pixelated, understandable tileset. Best for me. It must be finished. \o/

StopSignal · 2016-08-13T19:30:48.000Z

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[center]MORE CLOTHES INCOMING!
(even though the clothes that this small guy has are already in the version i posted a few days ago, but whatever, hahahaha)[/center]

I remade all tiles lost and made like 30 more tiles of clothes, between the floor tile and the character overlay tile. Not much, but considering various clothes use the same overlays and tiles, it’s quite a bunch more! I’m happy with my progress today!

By the way, this great person took this tileset and filled all missing tiles with tiles from other tilesets. Quite a tongue twister there!

Meloman:

\o/

If you want to try it, just go here!

MediaFire

BLBR.rar

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I’ts quite awesome to be able to walk around without fearing a weird letter to attack your sight suddenly. And i thank him a lot!

I’ll still continue this version, however, as i am a weird bug that wouldn’t be happy unless i draws all stuff myself- something i doubt i’ll ever be able to, but whatever!

Try that tileset version! If you do, just a thing, after copying it to the GFX folder, you have to copy the fallback.png from brownlikebears into the new folder, and also create a “tileset.txt” with the following text inside:

[code]#Generated from project in Cataclysm DDA Tileset Studio
#Made by Meloman with tiles from various tilesets!

#Name of the tileset
NAME: brownlikebearsR

#Viewing (Option) name of the tileset
VIEW: BrownLikeBearsR

#JSON Path - Default of gfx/tile_config.json
JSON: tile_config.json

#Tileset Path - Default of gfx/tinytile.png
TILESET: tiles.png[/code]

Let’s thank him for his great, awesome work! I’ll use it myself for now while not drawing. Try it and give your opinion!

Grandpuh_Ty · 2016-08-15T11:29:54.000Z

Are there any of your new tiles in the download you linked? There are some strange differences between the two last versions.

I kinda dig the blue vehicle parts. The sidewalk tiles are nice, though I’m not sure if they fit compared to the slab style. And the two-dot highlight for multiple items on the ground is inferior to the blue square outline. Also the one you linked doesn’t seem to have the paper-doll set up properly, as in not at all

StopSignal · 2016-09-17T18:38:09.000Z

Soon i’ll start working again, if school lets me! And i’m totally keeping some ideas from Meloman’s version. I hope you’ll like them! Sorry for not having much time to work on this.

DeWolf · 2017-07-06T05:38:52.000Z

So any idea what is causing my game to say that it fails to load tiles_config.json in the semi latest experimental version and I have no idea what causes it.

Snapdragon · 2017-07-22T16:25:34.000Z

DeWolf:

So any idea what is causing my game to say that it fails to load tiles_config.json in the semi latest experimental version and I have no idea what causes it.

Go to tileset.txt and remove “BrownLikeBears” from the JSON: and TILESET: lines.

StopSignal · 2017-09-27T00:29:31.000Z

Woops, sorry for not being here to help ya sooner! Thanks Snapdragon for helping him for me.

It has been quite a while since that, yeah, and some things changed around in the way the game loads tiles. Might need to update the link sometime, though quite some time has passed since i last updated it, and i kind of already accepted i’ll never truly finish it, hehe.

Anyone can take up the torch if you wanna!
I guess one day i’ll try to continue, but who knows! The new features for tilesets seem quite fancy, so yep, quite tempting. Let’s wait for what future me has to say! I hear he is quite an awesome guy.

Litppunk · 2017-09-27T01:07:38.000Z

No offence, but I think I like future Stopsignal better. He’s a little older, but has more life experience too.

Good luck whatever you choose, but I think your tileset is currently the most complete? It’ll be hard to replace you.

StopSignal · 2017-09-27T02:07:14.000Z

Hah! it certainly is not!
Chesthole’s really complete and really awesome, and the Xotto one is quite neat as well! Also they use the new tileset features fully!
Because i’m an idiot i’d probably play the game with just ascii because it’d be weird not to use my tileset (i have this thing were, if a game’s art is moddable, I NEED TO MOD IT, see: https://imgur.com/a/YdxD0) otherwise it wouldn’t feel good. and mine is quite unfinished, but welp, hehe. I still recommend them! Also Chezzo is quite an awesome pal, so i’m happy to see how well his tileset was received, hehe

Litppunk · 2017-09-27T03:39:37.000Z

OH yes! silly me, ive only barely gotten back into it after all the computer switching and tuning Ive done recently.

AngryFrenchKanadian · 2018-02-15T22:54:37.093Z

A new version of this would be awesome. I loved the clarity and how easy on the eyes it was at the same time.

BuckDashing · 2018-02-15T23:03:08.791Z

This is my favorite tileset, by far. Its the perfect mix of RetroDays and ChestHole. I just got back into the game again, and if noone wants to continue to work on it, or I don’t see Stop Signal, I might try and update it myself.

StopSignal · 2018-02-17T08:16:01.019Z

oh god considering the junk mail section was going to delete the mails about these posts in a few days i’m so lucky i could see your posts!

I’m seriously really busy with school and life to continue updating this tileset, sorry! But i’m seriously glad you all liked it. Everyone, and i mean EVERYONE is allowed to modify and just make whatever you want out of it, seriously! Just continue it and if you get it complete enough make a new post and publish it! I’d be so goddamn happy to see some part of my work in the official builds, something that would make all of this not go to waste, hehe

So yeah, everyone is able to modify and continue! After all, this tileset itself is a modified RetroDays, as you can see by all the yet unchanged tiles. Oops (?

AngryFrenchKanadian · 2018-02-17T13:48:19.246Z

Don’t worry about it man, real life takes precedence. Makes me want to actually learn how to make tilesets to improve on this one, it could be my little contribution to C:DDA.

@BuckDashing If I can get over the initial hurdle of getting to grips with updating a tileset we could totally split the workload haha.

StopSignal · 2018-02-17T16:50:58.717Z

if you need anything, just ask! i’ll try to help with your questions if you have any!

BuckDashing · 2018-02-26T01:28:38.476Z

The biggest problem I have is trying to figure out all of the sprites that are missing. I’ve done some pixel work in the past, and the actual PS creative work is not the issue, but mapping the sprites appropriately is the bottleneck for me. Also, I think you could assume without me saying that I can spend about 3-4hrs a week max on this. I really want it to happen, and I don’t think I will get back into the game without this tileset work, but I’m definitely in a tight spot with with time right now IRL, don’t count on consistency.

Like, I have 2 tile_config.json’s open right now, but trying to search between them to figure out what needs to be added is a nightmare. I mean, I could, in theory, play the game and figure out the discrepancies, but I really don’t have the time, even using debug. If you have any good tips on that, I’d love to hear it.

StopSignal · 2018-03-06T18:02:11.983Z

I think my modus operandi was to have the game open with a debug character, and just run around until i find stuff that is not tiled, whether crafted or wore or just a normal world tile.
I’d have my tiles.json and other, bigger tileset’s tiles.json open in notepad++, and when i’d find a missing tile then one of two things would happen:

1- one is that the tile has the RetroDays art, and therefore has to be found within the tiles.png and then redrawn, which is the most fun part.
Sometimes however, that Retrodays tile was used for a variety of things that would have to look different in BrownLikeBears, like, i don’t know, glass sheets and paper sheets, to give an example (I think they had the same tile? hehe). Then i’d redraw the tile, (paper for example) and assign a new line of code for the different one (glass), which is quite easy, and i’ll explain it in point 2

2- it can also happen, specially with all these versions that have come and gone, that the tile does not exist. Then you gotta 1- draw it, 2-find the code in the other, more up to date tileset’s tiles.json, 3- add it to blb’s tiles.json.

If you can’t find the code in the other tileset’s tiles.json, then you can always with the debug tool, with either “spawn item” (it shows you the actual item code over the description, just exchange the name in the code snippetty thingamajig) or “edit terrain” if it’s terrain/furniture. Also the edit terrain tool is a really easy way to find all the missing terrain tiles!

That could be a tutorial for people who want to edit/“make your own tileset based on others tileset”!
Also worn items had some prefix to the name in the code snippet that was like “overlay_worn_X” but i can’t remember it quite well. It’s quite easy to find, they are the first code thingies to appear in my tiles.json!

any more questions i’m here! sorry for taking quite a long time. Wasn’t in town!

BuckDashing · 2018-03-07T22:29:18.134Z

Thanks StopSignal,

I was hoping there was an easier way to compare tilesets, but I guess debug spawning everything is the best bet. While I’m at it now I also noticed cheiflean rebooted Artyoms mod, one of my favorites, so I’m going to check that out too. Fortunately, most of that is so subtly different as to not warrant new sprites, besides maybe the GL. As of now, I’ve done about 5 sprites, slow going but I’ll release something on this thread when I’ve made good progress.