Shoal Tiles

[YukiKitsune]

When I added the tiles to the map I just copy pasted them over it.

And I was beaten to adding details. xD

[Felix45]

I thought i'd give it quick go to see how it looks. Something like this?

exactly like that

very nice very nice melikes.

[Volcove]

Looks about as perfect as it can get. Very nice improvement.

[Ploumeur]

Make this for Rain and Snow, too!!!

[Glenstorm]

Bump from beyond the grave!


I've added support to AWBW for doing the context sensitive pretty shoals, but it needs quite a lot of tiles and I'm not much of an artist, so I'm crowdsourcing this to you guys for some help.

There's a total of 81 tiles, in 3 different weathers, needed to make this all display well. To submit tiles, please name them as indicated below and zip/rar/7z/tarball them up and upload them somewhere. I'll keep this thread updated with images of some maps + the set of tiles used on those images. I'd like to take care of clear first, then we can work on rain/snow after. Once we get a real nice pretty set of tiles, I can push this to the site. One person doesn't need to do all the tiles, everyone is welcome to contribute until we have a really nice set of graphics.

File Naming Procedure:

Each shoal tile has 4 tiles around it, which I will be calling top left right and bottom, which shoal tile to display depends on what's in those 4. Each slot has 3 possibilities - a land tile, a shoal tile, or a sea tile. Land tiles are given a value of 2, shoal tiles a value of 1, and sea tiles a value of 0. That value is multiplied by a different number depending on what slot it's in; top = 1, left = 3, right = 9, bottom = 27. Add the totals from each of the 4 slots together to figure out what shoal tile to display.

For example a shoal with land to the right of it and sea all around would go like this:
Top = 0 (sea) * 1 (top) = 0.
Left = 0 (sea) * 3 (left) = 0
Right = 2 (land) * 9 (right) = 18
Bottom = 0 (sea) * 27 (bottom) = 0
0 + 0 + 18 + 0 = 18
So this tile should be named shoal18.gif
the rain and snow versions would be named shoal18_rain.gif and shoal18_snow.gif, respectively.

Edit:
Tiles should be 16x16 px, gif format.

Some resources
http://awbw.amarriner.com/glenstorm/shoals.tar.gz AWBW shoal tiles, a lot of extra junk in here.
http://awbw.amarriner.com/glenstorm/v3/terrain.png Game terrain rips, courtesy of smack.

[Mr--Clean]

I believe this is shoal72.gif

I have it at image shack right now but I dont know about the whole zip/rar/7z/tarball thing.

[YukiKitsune]

Normal tiles all done. Gonna edit for fog, rain, and snow next and split them into separate flies. I left some alt versions in there to vote on :3

[Morgan_Leah]

Here's my first go at it. I'm not really sure how good they'll look once they're all out on a map, but I'd like to see if possible.

Edit: Made some quick improvements.
http://www.mediafire.com/?qoq6166h48r8oh2

[Glenstorm]

Morgan's first set.

http://awbw.amarriner.com/glenstorm/Sho ... gan.tar.gz

Since kit has a full set coming, I figure give it a bit before starting revisions.

Edit: A nice list of maps to test for shoals would be nice, so if any people have suggestions for other ones link them. I'm particularly interested in shoal lakes since so many maps use them, and some maps where shoal islands and stuff get used would be nice too.

http://awbw.amarriner.com/prevmaps.php?maps_id=43024 for fiery beach

[Glenstorm]

Kit's first set.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7n8baj4fhkzjd8e

Will go through and post opinions on both sets in detail later. Definitely some things I think both can pull from each other, plus I think both have some numbering mistakes and I'd like to give the artists a chance to correct those.

[Mr--Clean]

The beaches look great but honestly the shallow water looks kind of weak.

[Glenstorm]

Kit's 2nd iteration:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bob767p4xphm7z7

[Glenstorm]

Morgan's 2nd iteration







http://www.mediafire.com/?i4dk70a4c1g37vx

[YukiKitsune]

Here are my tiles in an easy to cut format.

[hetchel]

Are river tiles are considered sea?
It looks good on rainy, and bad on Bout Ta Bubble.