RetroDays Tileset

skYman · 2015-06-25T06:15:34.000Z

Hey Anti, I’m loving your tileset and I just created a new weapon and type of gas that is being sprayed by it. Could I create these tiles for RetroDays as well or do you want to do that yourself?

http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10630.msg238810#msg238810

Couldn’t help myself

Antistar · 2015-06-25T10:30:17.000Z

Anyone can add to it; that’s the way it works.

(No, I don’t mind.)

Malaxxor · 2016-02-09T01:46:41.000Z

So, I hope that this isn’t too much of a necro, but is anyone still working on this tileset? It’s my absolute favourite and it would be a piety to slowly see it getting out of date…

Antistar · 2016-02-20T05:52:50.000Z

I don’t check in here all the time - because I’m still busy trying to finish that Skyrim mod, before getting sucked into Fallout 4 modding no doubt - so if there’s anything super urgent regarding RetroDays people can use my e-mail address (in the OP) if they need to.

I have been feeling like playing CDDA again lately though, and that’s almost always accompanied by me updating RetroDays, so… can’t promise anything, but there may be an update sometime soon.

With that in mind, have there been any big (or small I guess) changes to making/using tilesets since around the middle of last year? Updated tools, new abilities, anything I need to be aware of, etc?

Antistar · 2016-03-02T01:30:57.000Z

Okay, no-one mentioned anything and I didn’t notice that anything’s changed dramatically, so I went ahead and just updated the tileset as I normally would. I’ll put up a PR once I have time to work out how to do it again; maybe tomorrow.

One thing though; I think in the past I’ve said I wouldn’t do tiles for objects from mods, for the sake of my sanity. That’s still true, except that a few months ago Trihook sent me some tiles for dinosaurs from the Dino mod. (I only just noticed their PM because while I had set my profile options so that I’d receive an e-mail if someone PMed me… that doesn’t appear to actually work.) I added in a few tiles of my own to round out the numbers, and now the Dino mod at least is covered.

I’ll have to play a game with that mod enabled now.

Litppunk · 2016-03-02T02:53:29.000Z

See if you can get you overmap tileset mainlined. I would love to see that easier to put into the game.

Antistar · 2016-03-02T09:06:57.000Z

Litppunk:

See if you can get you overmap tileset mainlined. I would love to see that easier to put into the game.

For the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know, this is what Litppunk is talking about:

[quote=“Antistar, post:1, topic:5201”]RetroASCII Overmap Font: If you want your in-game overmap to look like this, grab the RetroASCII Overmap Font package from the Nexus link below. Instructions are in the included readme file.

Download: Nexus[/quote]

I could make a PR for it, but as it stands now, doing so would replace the default overmap, and I don’t know if people would go for that. (I mean I don’t know why anyone would prefer tiles - graphical or otherwise - to be rectangular and not square, but maybe some do, you know?)

What would be great is if people could choose fonts for the overmap in an in-game menu, just like graphical tilesets. I’m guessing that would require code changes though, and even if I had time for it at the moment, that’s beyond me, unfortunately.

Antistar · 2016-03-03T05:14:14.000Z

Urrrrghhhh… okay, the PR is up. Took me hours to get to that point. The interface for the Github desktop application has changed every time I come back to it, and I seem to find new ways to break it every time. I think I actually did everything with the git shell command line this time. (Had to.)

I guess we’ll find out if I messed it up somewhere.

Edit: Looks like I didn’t - Rivet merged it. Thanks.

Genn_Faol · 2016-03-03T10:22:41.000Z

I’ve noticed that there are several missing tiles. Some trees, for sure, they just show up as “7”, and the shady zombies also only show up as “Z”.

Antistar · 2016-03-03T10:46:55.000Z

Genn Faol:

I’ve noticed that there are several missing tiles. Some trees, for sure, they just show up as “7”, and the shady zombies also only show up as “Z”.

I didn’t miss those; I didn’t miss anything unless it’s a debug item, from a mod or Tileset Studio doesn’t account for it.

Do you have the latest experimental? It would have only just gone in. I checked 4501 just now and the update is in there.

Genn_Faol · 2016-03-03T11:03:21.000Z

4501 hadn’t been available to me until just now. Seems it is indeed in there.

Antistar · 2016-03-04T01:17:26.000Z

All good then.

Teyar · 2016-03-04T03:33:00.000Z

No change to the map with the new updates… Do I need to do something to enable that aspect?

Antistar · 2016-03-04T04:23:28.000Z

Teyar:

No change to the map with the new updates… Do I need to do something to enable that aspect?

Oh, right - sorry, I didn’t think to clarify that the PR was for the update to RetroDays; not for that overmap font. Like I was saying there, I could make a PR for it (and so could someone else, if they wanted to), but I didn’t because as things stand now it would change the default font used for the overmap and I don’t know if that’s what people want.

You can grab it from the Nexus link in my quote there if you want to use it, though.

Litppunk · 2016-03-04T05:15:16.000Z

Alot of mainlined mods are optionable. I don’t see why what map tiling you have shuold be any different in that respect. Set it up as a separate mod and at the very least get it hooked up with the CDDA launcher to make it an easy add-on option.

Antistar · 2016-03-04T08:06:10.000Z

Litppunk:

Alot of mainlined mods are optionable. I don’t see why what map tiling you have shuold be any different in that respect. Set it up as a separate mod and at the very least get it hooked up with the CDDA launcher to make it an easy add-on option.

Hmm… I didn’t think of that. I didn’t realise that it would work as a mod. I’ll look into it.

Teyar · 2016-03-04T23:25:04.000Z

I strongly encourage this! I mean, you DO know that your tileset is like, the definitive public perceived look of the game, right? The biggest LP of it out there uses it, and when that player cycled through the various options the votes were strongly in favor of RetroDays. Having that extend as thoroughly as possible can only be a good thing.

Trihook · 2016-03-05T01:07:32.000Z

That overland map looks nice, I’m all in favor of making it possible! And, as people mentioned above, shady zombies and some trees don’t have tiles yes, as far as I noticed in my games. Keep up the good work! =D

Antistar · 2016-03-05T04:37:15.000Z

Teyar:

I strongly encourage this! I mean, you DO know that your tileset is like, the definitive public perceived look of the game, right? The biggest LP of it out there uses it, and when that player cycled through the various options the votes were strongly in favor of RetroDays. Having that extend as thoroughly as possible can only be a good thing.

Oh yeah? Do you mean Aavak’s LP? I do like Aavak’s stuff.

Trihook:

That overland map looks nice, I’m all in favor of making it possible! And, as people mentioned above, shady zombies and some trees don’t have tiles yes, as far as I noticed in my games. Keep up the good work! =D

Hey, thanks. Those tiles are definitely in there, though; the new creatures and trees were pretty much the first things I did for this update, actually. Just ensure you get one of the latest experimentals; 4501 and later, I believe.

Anyway; I was just trying to implement “RetroMap” as a mod, but it’s not working. Both config\fontlist.txt and config\fonts.json are auto-generated by the game as far as I can tell, and you (currently) then replace them with the files from the download - or edit them appropriately.

The game couldn’t interpret fonts.json when included in a mod though, complaining that it lacked a “type”. So the game just can’t do it as a mod, or such a mod needs to be set up differently. Either way, I don’t know how to do it myself, I’m afraid.

I’ll make a suggestion that it be included somehow over in the Drawing Board section, though.

Laughing_Fool · 2016-03-13T22:17:26.000Z

I just want to say I love this tileset, I would probably never get into this game if it wasn’t for it.