"Mshock's" tileset (v0.36)

[Mshock]

I’d like to point out that “Fungal Fighters” aren’t fungus, they fight fungus. It’s kinda disconcerting to see mushrooms among triffids. I kept thinking they would start fighting at any time until I actually read the description.

Interesting, thanks for noticing.

[egomassive]

Small set this time, but I wanted to get out my proposal for a Fungal Fighter. I gave it 2 broad branches for digging and 2 thin branches for flinging thorns. I’m not quite happy with it, but I’m not sure how to improve it. Anyone have a suggestion? Here’s the in game description…

A stout woody plant that can dig through the ground and flick spines from its branches. The thorns carry a fungicidal compound with paralytic effects.

wooden_barrel, mon_fungal_fighter

[KA101]

[quote=“egomassive, post:132, topic:7270”]Small set this time, but I wanted to get out my proposal for a Fungal Fighter. I gave it 2 broad branches for digging and 2 thin branches for flinging thorns. I’m not quite happy with it, but I’m not sure how to improve it. Anyone have a suggestion? Here’s the in game description…

A stout woody plant that can dig through the ground and flick spines from its branches. The thorns carry a fungicidal compound with paralytic effects.

wooden_barrel, mon_fungal_fighter
[/quote]

In general, triffids–the fungal fighter is a specialized anti-Mycus variant thereof–are more or less a walking flower, kinda like “a tulip with stubby leg-knobs”* in configuration, so the flingers might be longer and the body less bulky in proportion. Might also make it all a more/less uniform color, rather than the abrupt green on the flinger-branches. That make me think they look tacked-on rather than part of the plant. :-/

That said, you’ve done pretty well with that description. Thanks for your time and effort.

*Some other details in the book, like tendrils and some sticks they rattled for communication. Not immediately necessary here.

[egomassive]

[quote=“KA101, post:133, topic:7270”][quote=“egomassive, post:132, topic:7270”]…
Anyone have a suggestion?[/quote]

In general, triffids–the fungal fighter is a specialized anti-Mycus variant thereof–are more or less a walking flower, kinda like “a tulip with stubby leg-knobs”* in configuration, so the flingers might be longer and the body less bulky in proportion. Might also make it all a more/less uniform color, rather than the abrupt green on the flinger-branches. That make me think they look tacked-on rather than part of the plant. :-/

That said, you’ve done pretty well with that description. Thanks for your time and effort.

*Some other details in the book, like tendrils and some sticks they rattled for communication. Not immediately necessary here.[/quote]

Second attempt at a Fungal Fighter. I’ve included my original attempt and the existing Triffids from the tileset for comparison. The new fungal fighter is third from the left.

This one is more like the other flowers and less like a mole with antlers. The petals are folded back to accommodate pushing through the ground. A tangle of woody roots do that pushing. Still present are flexible green branches for flicking thorns.

[KA101]

Looks workable, though you know my thoughts on actively emulating Waldo. shrug

[egomassive]

Looks workable, though you know my thoughts on actively emulating Waldo. shrug

This was a hard place to be diverse, the last piece in a series. I haven’t disregarded your wishes to depart from Waldo, but it’s hard to be cohesive without imitating. I’m still trying to figure it out. The alternative is to replace his work all together, but that’s a lot of work. Also, I really love his monsters. I don’t know that I could top them.

I do still plan to take a crack at ethnic/mutant playable characters. We’ll see how that goes before I consider redoing the monsters.

[KA101]

[quote=“KA101, post:135, topic:7270”]Looks workable, though you know my thoughts on actively emulating Waldo. shrug

This was a hard place to be diverse, the last piece in a series. I haven’t disregarded your wishes to depart from Waldo, but it’s hard to be cohesive without imitating. I’m still trying to figure it out. The alternative is to replace his work all together, but that’s a lot of work. Also, I really love his monsters. I don’t know that I could top them.

I do still plan to take a crack at ethnic/mutant playable characters. We’ll see how that goes before I consider redoing the monsters.[/quote]

Yeah, hence the “workable”. I’m OK with using your new fungal fighter.

[Baleur]

As a new player (but longtime DF and roguelike player), i’d just like to say that this is by far my favorite tileset of all that i’ve seen so far. Thanks for compiling it, even if it is cobbled together from works by other authors.
If they are ok by it or not, personally i’m just happy this tileset exists. It is the best combination which fits thematically together.
Not too bright. Not too dark. Great textures all around. Keep it up.

[KA101]

[quote=“AK-74”]I want to make tileset. i wanna make mutated player tile(especially Wolf). but i don’t know how make it. so How can I make it?
p.s How can I upload image? when click insert image just comes .[/quote]

I don’t see an image link there between your img tags. You’ll need to use an image hosting site or otherwise get it on the web (folks seem to like imgur; I’ve never tried it, but dropbox doesn’t like img linking) then throw the address between those inks.

[img]http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17600000/Awesome-random-17652989-500-278.jpg[/img]

results in:

[The_Lone_Badger]

[quote=“egomassive, post:134, topic:7270”]Second attempt at a Fungal Fighter. I’ve included my original attempt and the existing Triffids from the tileset for comparison. The new fungal fighter is third from the left.

This one is more like the other flowers and less like a mole with antlers. The petals are folded back to accommodate pushing through the ground. A tangle of woody roots do that pushing. Still present are flexible green branches for flicking thorns.[/quote]

I like it.

[stk2008]

Hey Mshock

Any more updates coming they have added folding seats to cars now whice off course makes them resort back to ascii

[JazzGuru]

Sharp rocks are also missing a tile, and hence they revert back to ASCII as well.

I heard that Mshock is busy with school, but I hope he will find the time to update this awesome tileset.

Maybe someone else can add the missing stuff, if Mshock cannot do it…

[stk2008]

Ah now you mention it yeah I think i did hear about Mshock being busy.

Ah well his education is very important and all the best Mshock thanks for this awesome tile set

[JazzGuru]

Thanks for the update MShock…

[Random_dragon]

Hmm. Since I offered up a modded version of your tileset to account for my mod’s content, which has since been merged…now what?

Since my offshoot of it is now out-of-date concerning other experimental content, I dunno whether to simply leave mine out-of-date, add my content to the latest version of the tileset, offer my additions to yours instead, or what.

In retrospect I feel like I should’ve asked for your advice to begin with before adding an edited tileset to my PR, though KA101 gave the okay to including it in addition to the mod. ^^"

[stk2008]

Ahh it was you that created the modded version of this tileset

Thanks.

May I ask for some thing pretty please ?

I always use this tileset and love it but was wondering if you would also make a 32x version pretty please when ever you update if so thank you very much

[Random_dragon]

Meep. Hmm, I guess I should, then. o.o

Also pondering an ambitious idea. Should I add tiles to mine for other official mod content? I can imagine that if I did so, trying to sprite up the dino mod is gonna be Fun. =w=

EDIT: Augh, I just realized what a clusterfuck it’ll be to re-edit all those sprites in 32x32, as resizing the 24x24 version looks several hundred different kinds of awful.

[stk2008]

ah well thanks for trying buddy

And yeah Mshock seems to be away a lot these days (achool?) so would be epic to get updates on this epic tile set I cant really speak for him but I dont think he would mind? CDDA comunity seems to be a very mature kind place so every one helps each other out

[Random_dragon]

Hopefully he won’t mind, yeah.

And yeah, so far I’m having a hilarious time trying to recall which of Mshock’s tiles I used as the edit base for which of the sprites I cooked up, so unsure about recreating this in 32x32.

And I blame all of this lunacy on the fact that the lean-to terrain had some transparency issues. >w>

[stk2008]

haha well thanks for what ya have done buddy