Castle Statue? (My flag design)
Castle Statue? (My flag design)
Can i ask what the hell this is? lol iv been wondering for like 40 weeks now lol
Last edited by Tenche on 14 Feb 2006, 14:51, edited 1 time in total.
- Kineticstorm
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I've been wondering why there isn't a seperate layor for the objects.Tenche wrote:NEW
BETTER?!
Right now, the objects are limited in where they can be placed, because they have the "ground" material attached to their lower halves (dirt, grass, etc.).
If they had a transparent background, then you could have a "ground" layor, which was just dirt, grass, etc. Next (additional) layor would be these objects sitting on top of the ground, like pots, stones, wells, signs, tree bases, etc. Then you would have the rest of the current layers on top of that. This would allow using the well, the flag, or the rock in a grassy or snowy plain, as well as the desert they are tied to now.
I'd think an additional layor would make it simpler to generate more interesting maps because it would be easy to "steal" objects from other tilesets in ways the original tileset designer didn't plan for.
...Just curious as to why they are limited this way. Limits on the map editor, the server, the client, etc.?
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Yes, I agree. And as you can see if you browse trough the tileset bitmaps in the data\graphics\tiles folder it has been done that way with the fences and objects in most other tilesets. We should be consistent and apply this to all fringe tiles. Shadows these items cast should be transparent black (or dark blue).khandy wrote:If they had a transparent background, then you could have a "ground" layor, which was just dirt, grass, etc. Next (additional) layor would be these objects sitting on top of the ground, like pots, stones, wells, signs, tree bases, etc.
I think it dates from when TMW didn't have an alpha layer in the tiles but just one transparency colour (and maybe even less maplayers?). In those days shadows had to be drawn in the same layer as the floor tiles so they were bound to one floor tile anyway.
Going off-topic here, btw.
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