making tilesets.

[b_o]

I saw helpful information relating to WC2 tilesets here:

http://wayofthepixel.net/index.php?topic=9865.0







Wait for the animation on this one:

[Kyran]

That is sexy.

[b_o]

I was experimenting with this method of making trees, and it seems to work pretty easily:

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slightly different angle

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[Kyran]

Lookin' good.

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I see that the attachments have resumed work.

[DinkyDyeAussie]

Then after you make them all you have work out how to program it in the lua files...is that difficult, or should I just do my tileset in the same order as an existing one?

[snv]

AFAIK, original Warcraft 2 tiling algorithm (the one you get by disassembling editor) uses 4 corners, instead of sides, to do tiling, and also has tiling hierarchy, with mud being top parent (mud->grass->forest, mud->water->dark_water, mud->rock)

I.e. it checks if corner is surrounded by same tile type, creating a 4-bit bitmask including each corner's state and looks it up a 16-entry array of corner permutations. If there is no such permutation, it degrades the tile to it's hierarchical parent.

Major problem with such tiling is that there is less lumber than forest tiles, leading to map disbalances. Something like a single tree tile would have fixed it.