Tileset project

Austupaio · 2013-09-02T16:45:02.000Z

Should have phrased differently; ‘at least have the letters change to the relevant pictures?’ is preferred.

SirHoder · 2013-09-02T17:46:30.000Z

[quote=“SirHoder, post:270, topic:2019”]Had a look a tile_id_data.h and am pondering some way to automagically import the various item.jsons to create a master tile-set definition.

What determines if an item/element is multi-tile capable? Is it just arbitrarily having the definition in the tile-config.jason and the display code automatically handles adjacent furniture? or is there some other place tying this capability together? Sorry to ask these random questions, but I’m just starting to parse the code and am having a heck of a time figuring out what goes where.[/quote]

Well, current experimentation has resulted in missed results. Furniture appears to be very multi-tile friendly… Beds, desks, pool table all work nicely. Grass also works, which is nice to blend it in with the dirt. But to my disappointment, Field effects such as smoke, electricity, even blood splatter/fleshy gibbets don’t seem to apply.

Deon · 2013-09-02T18:07:59.000Z

So here’s a small release. All of zombies are done, some monsters (fungaloids, CHUDs etc) are still missing. Also most of the items are ?.
Most of terrain tiles and furniture are done.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6smwpc4l8jojn3r

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There’re also a few errors within the code (with enums) which I addressed by moving tiles forward, but stuff like poppy flowers does not work yet (GaleN? :D).

This is for those who want to play with a tileset I guess.

SirHoder · 2013-09-02T21:40:44.000Z

Looking awesome Deon!

That being said…

“Sick of beautiful tile-sets created by magical art robots? Want the bare minimum graphical interface for your favorite game? For a limited time only! This thing!”

Well, Deon’s release really put a crimp in my efforts…

I’m about at the same point Deon described, most terrain features, a few common items (rocks, sticks, 2x4s) and most field effects (fire, smoke, acid, blood splatters, etc), plus a complete set of vehicle bits. Using 16x16 tiles based on the stock graphic set. My enemy graphics blow up as Deon described, but i haven’t bothered to compensate for the mismatched indexes, so beware… My focus has been on reducing the undefined bits you’d encounter in general play, towns should render out pretty completely. Rarer areas (like mines, temples, fema camps) have not been tested, I expect errors.

Don’t know how much further I’ll push this, I’m not looking forward to the mass of items that are on the horizon, and my quality is best described as “programmer art”… But this does get you playing with a raw tileset. May be be useful for people that don’t want to dig into the Json to apply tile changes.

tile_config.json (71.7 KB)

SirHoder · 2013-09-02T21:41:52.000Z

And some screenshots since I was bouncing off the attachment file size limits…

StopSignal · 2013-09-02T22:15:53.000Z

Oh, i envy you for being able to see your own tilesets for now…

Well. lets update the google doc.

xLemor · 2013-09-02T22:49:42.000Z

[quote=“SirHoder, post:275, topic:2019”]Looking awesome Deon!

That being said…

“Sick of beautiful tile-sets created by magical art robots? Want the bare minimum graphical interface for your favorite game? For a limited time only! This thing!”

Well, Deon’s release really put a crimp in my efforts…

I’m about at the same point Deon described, most terrain features, a few common items (rocks, sticks, 2x4s) and most field effects (fire, smoke, acid, blood splatters, etc), plus a complete set of vehicle bits. Using 16x16 tiles based on the stock graphic set. My enemy graphics blow up as Deon described, but i haven’t bothered to compensate for the mismatched indexes, so beware… My focus has been on reducing the undefined bits you’d encounter in general play, towns should render out pretty completely. Rarer areas (like mines, temples, fema camps) have not been tested, I expect errors.

Don’t know how much further I’ll push this, I’m not looking forward to the mass of items that are on the horizon, and my quality is best described as “programmer art”… But this does get you playing with a raw tileset. May be be useful for people that don’t want to dig into the Json to apply tile changes.[/quote]

It still looks good. As for the new items coming i made a suggestion about it. I dont know if GalenEvil can pull it off tho.
something like this: <item_id> use if not present use <category_tile>

StopSignal · 2013-09-02T23:03:01.000Z

And how it actually “senses” when there is no ?

I mean, it will put the ? tile if the item is not coded. If it is, just put the generic tile manually. Because when you put "use " the code don’t reads if it is a tile or not, if it has the ID, it must have the tile position next to it.

Oh, damn, it is clear in my head and really hard to explain here.

Well, in the other side, i discovered a problem with Triffids: they are not like they are supposed to be. Samscale’s work is good, but is not like the original Triffid.

GalenEvil · 2013-09-02T23:10:56.000Z

[quote=“SirHoder, post:270, topic:2019”]Had a look a tile_id_data.h and am pondering some way to automagically import the various item.jsons to create a master tile-set definition.

What determines if an item/element is multi-tile capable? Is it just arbitrarily having the definition in the tile-config.jason and the display code automatically handles adjacent furniture? or is there some other place tying this capability together? Sorry to ask these random questions, but I’m just starting to parse the code and am having a heck of a time figuring out what goes where.[/quote]

It’s mostly the definition of “multitile”:true and “additional_tiles”:[…stuff…] being in there. Fields are supposed to be multitile capable, but may have messed up a rotation somewhere and I’ll need to fix that.

Austupaio:

Question for Galen; what about the mob identification panel, will that stay (seem unnecessary with tiles) or at least have the letters change to the relevant pictures?

I’ll talk with the other developers and see what they think is the right move to make.

StopSignal · 2013-09-02T23:19:26.000Z

I’d like to see that. Would look really good.

JAYPCM · 2013-09-03T00:45:57.000Z

I’m really excited, I think I’ll stick with classic style till Deon’s tileset is finished though, I think the ? would annoy me a little. Question for Deon though. Are you going to support papperdolling for your avatar so EQ shows up on it? I believe they said they would support that in the code because it wasn’t too difficult.

GalenEvil · 2013-09-03T01:38:56.000Z

Here is a full list of current hardcoded ids and item ids

Pastebin of all IDs. Can’t put them into the post as it makes the post longer than 20k characters >.<

Also made a template json file that is accurate of about 30 minutes ago, which you can get from Here on my repo. It has a PR to get merged into the mainline with some other changes to add in changes to enum values. Should get merged in relatively soon, and will then be testable

Deon · 2013-09-03T05:05:37.000Z

JAYPCM:

I’m really excited, I think I’ll stick with classic style till Deon’s tileset is finished though, I think the ? would annoy me a little. Question for Deon though. Are you going to support papperdolling for your avatar so EQ shows up on it? I believe they said they would support that in the code because it wasn’t too difficult.

I have paperdoll sprites for a big part of clothing and weapons, so once it’s in, I will make it possible.

GalenEvil · 2013-09-03T05:18:27.000Z

Deon: Looked at your tileset and it is awesome

Deon · 2013-09-03T05:29:19.000Z

Can you post an announcement or something when you manage to fix the enum errors please? I am mostly browsing from work on phone and I don’t want to miss it :D.

GalenEvil · 2013-09-03T06:20:23.000Z

Enum errors fixed, got merged in while I wasn’t looking >.<

Deon · 2013-09-03T06:43:24.000Z

I haven’t compiled the source in a year or more, I mean I could look up and compile it myself, but I have so much stuff to do (and I feel a bit lazy) :D. Is the compiled version the newest one (with all the fixes)?

P.S. I’ve checked this version: http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Win32-SDL/lastBuild/

The poppy flowers are fixed, but I still don’t see swimmer zombies in the json file.

P.P.S. I think enums are fixed anyway, I just need to add the swimmer zombie to the json file. Amazing! I will release a fixed version with added triffid, fungaloids and other monsters soon.

GalenEvil · 2013-09-03T06:55:57.000Z

Yeah, for a full list of everything that can be added you should look at the “tile_config_template.json” and copy its contents over to your working file. It has all of the default values w/o any “additional_tiles” groups defined.

Zireael · 2013-09-03T07:33:10.000Z

Where do I put Deon’s tileset to play with?

GalenEvil · 2013-09-03T07:53:15.000Z

as long as it is inside of the DDA folder you can use it. If you place it in the DDA root directory but you’ll need to change data/gfx.txt to point to the tileset image and the tileset json files