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Kage wrote:In truth, TMW is moving away from true pixel art, which IMO is a good thing.

IMO not a particularly good thing, and it's only because none us are much good at real pixel art.

poison_ivy wrote:

Kage wrote:In truth, TMW is moving away from true pixel art, which IMO is a good thing.

IMO not a particularly good thing, and it's only because none us are much good at real pixel art.

I must agree, If someone can't handle pixel art its very unlikely they will be able to do high-resolution paintings. And this would only compound the problems (greater disparity between skill levels and much higher file sizes).

Can you expect someone with this lvl of skill http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/ ... 3g59gn.jpg to work with someone of this skill lvl http://sjbmx.com/wordpress/wp-content/u ... kobama.jpg

To scale images or parts of images in GIMP without blending colors, choose the interpolation mode "None". But I would strongly advise against using it, because it will mess up lines and textures.

Automatic scaling sprites just doesn't work in pixel art. Sorry. Although there are some special scaling filters for pixel art, like 2xSAL or the HQ*x family which can enlarge a pixel art image while still retaining the pixel art look. But these all only scale up by an integer factor and their results aren't that good all the time.
http://www.hiend3d.com/hq2x.html

By the way: some of the oldest TMW tiles, like the Tulimshar walls and the desert cliffs, are upscaled from 16x16 to 32x32 using HQ2x. All of these graphics are considered inferior to the newer graphics and are supposed to be replaced.

Woodland Fluffy:

what did you do on my brother ? you've wodded him ! <-angry fluffy
but, that looks like his mouth hasn't been wooded yet.
And I didn't see a wood texture like that, and I saw a lots of tree: I live in the woodland forest ...
nah ! this fluffy looks like a chocolat fluffy.

More serious, about the redyeing of old monster, I am not against. Some great game are using that , but don't even do that directly on a image !

Enchilado wrote:and it's only because none us are much good at real pixel art.

~well, when you were saying "us" you're inside this "us", so you're saying "me and other graphics devs are bad at pixel art": were you in obligation to say you were bad at pixel art however you're the art leader, the one ?

some people said to me if I'm an fluffy or an human. I responded to them my father was an human, and he was too drunk when he came to woodland forest; he saw a group of fluffy, and it was too late. my mother was an fluffy my father an human, and me ... I don't know.