Mockup :: Pixel Art Detail

just neat and amazing!!

Cool, reminds me Tactics Ogre.

really? that's interesting, as it wasn't meant to.  im not disappointed though, as there are far worse things to come to mind than on of the best game series EVARR

weirdly reminds me of zelda oot

Except of the shadowing below the characters, please choose all the nice words i should give you by yourself.

7/7 + fav.

It would be nice if the shadow went over the characters as well. But it looks great anyway! ^^

yeah, the roof needs tweeking, particularly the away-facing bits.

the engine is set up in flash, and while it's possible for the language to handle it, it isnt possible for our engine to without great difficulty or a large number of additional sets.  it's difficult to explain, basically the shadows are added by tile, so if they were to extend beyond the bounds of that tile (as the character does), we'd get overlapping shadows.  Really, we've been thinking of ways around it, and the only viable one so far is to create extra character sets with the coloration preapplied in photoshop or something.

I can't imagine such a thing would be *impossible* or even that difficult in any noncrippled programming language.

This is great as far as pixelling and technique goes, except that some of the roofedges are discontinuous in places.

then it's too bad that it's not possible to do that, isn't it?  :P

isometric engine restrictions end up calling for sacrifices like that - our zsorting makes it so that the shadow *cannot* cover the entire character, because if it did, it would also need to cover squares behind it, which would lead to double-shadows and an ugly mess.

We *might* find a way around it, but its nowhere near a priority

I think it would look better if the shadows overlaid the characters aswell as the terrain.

in general - thanks for the comments ^^

were going for more of an edward hopper approach to shadows, so the saturation is intentional.  leaving the characters out of the shadows is also intentional, we don't want to darken them and if we were to try, it would wreck the engine

are they better or worse in other lighting?
morning light
evening light


setz and neota - would you mind looking at my pixelation thread and telling me what you think of the new grass/ground/plants?
as far as worth investigation - herbalists learn the forage skill which allows them to search for natural items,  You've just given me the idea of marking some good finds with interesting plants - thanks!

Pretty nice. The red plants may be too saturated to fit the style of the rest, unless they are something of particular note (dangerous, beneficial, or otherwise warranting investigation)

There is afew colors. Such as the brown one on the shadowed roofs. That doesnt look so hot. But im guessing this is because of color restrictions.

Yay! Back in style.
I missed your technicolor goodness!

its PERFECT! i love it !

I think your shadows are broken, they are adding vibrant blue roof tiles and not affecting plant life or people =O Also, I would think shadows kill more saturation than you currently are doing.

Palette issues aside, I really love the house tiles, the stairs, and some of those ground tiles, some others feel out of place and don't mesh well, but anyway you look at it, everything has something pretty going for it

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

The last one was a lot more lively but that doesn't change the fact that this is amazing. :D

The wood textures are amazing...

Absolutely beautiful. 7'd and fav'd.

Great like the last one.

Main thing i dont like is the blue on the roofs, its kinda distracting.