The theme for this isometric collaboration is underground.

This project features DawnBringer's award winning 16 color palette. Scale inspired by fool's castle piece.





Edited by jalonso - 18 November 2011 at 1:47pm

Yay for the new collab!(:

Does this rule apply to completed or claimed tiles? Thx

Both, kind-of :/
It kinda depends on what's completed first and establishes starting points for others to feed off.
This is truly the weirdest rule and we just have to rough it till some areas have begun.
I'm claiming some pink edge tile just to illustrate what 'break the grid' means and I don't really need a number to call. Hope this answers your question.

*top-down grid but isometric projection...to be different :p
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This is DawnBringer's take on his palette, which may be helpful.
... This time I followed that old path of making well balanced palette suited for game-gfx. I sacrificed a bit of the dark register for some brighter colors. Tried to optimize for many smooth ramps and mixes while still having useful colors on their own.
Here's a handmade "ramp-scheme", and a Hue-Brightness plot + isometric colorspace-cubes made with scripts in Grafx2. (The brightness is perceptual according to my formula: sqr[(0.26*r)^2, (0.55*g)^2, (0.19*b)^2] , multiplying with 1.56905 normalizes to a scale of 0-255... it's better than Luma Y'601 according to my eyes at least).



And finally a little Mockup color test:



Edited by jalonso - 13 September 2010 at 8:44am

It's isometric NOT 45 degrees. Just isometric(as seen in fool's ref image) tiles inside a 'diamond shaped' template. Erase top-down from your brain. Light source is shown >:(

*Now have to spend my day making a tile for visual answer 9.9


Edited by jalonso - 11 September 2010 at 8:28am

[edit] Or not :/ Sorry guys I'm way to busy, maybe if I find time later I'll contribute.

Edited by slym - 11 September 2010 at 8:52am

wow, This will be fun :D
I will just wait until there are like 8-10 tiles, so i can make my own one!
It's just me or the losangle tile makes isometric looks more dificult to do?

Can I claim #42? <3 DA

This is really cool zch!

And the exploration has began!
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Whoever finish my T-Rex, make it look pretty k?


Edited by Abrax - 11 September 2010 at 3:45pm

Love that Zch!
sign me up for 66!

Abrax, that is not isometric.

sign me for 91 if is possible,today i try to finish up one tile =)

I never did a collaboration before, but i'd like to do this. But i wait for some pieces to be in place, because i want to be sure with perspective and want to get a general feel.

this is my piece; (#91)

It's a bit weird made iso in diamond template tsk
i hope i've done well without errors u.u

It looks cool, but i don't got any clue of what is it =p

Shall i have #66?

Have you already done something?
Cause i'm halfway on it x(
Maybe i can place it somewhere else if you want.

EDIT:



Maybe we can negotiate...
It's just a WIP, but i was planning to make another stairway like zch's one.

EDIT2:

EDIT3:


EDIT4:
I realized that the stairway rocks where too dark, hope its better now:



Edited by Jaker Pot - 12 September 2010 at 12:06pm

Yes, i'm sorry. What happened is that i already started making it since zch posted his tile, but i forgot to claim it...
Sorry for the confusion.

Well, anyone has any criticism for my tile?

Zch, just one thing:
If there is light coming from inside the entrance, why there is a shadow on the floor?

Now that you mention it, it doesn't make much sense...

Here is a new version w/o the shadow... I think it's better.

The entrance doesn't really lighten anything other than itself. Everything else is lit by the light source on right that was specified in the first post...

That's why the top of this tile is so dark, it is in the shadow cast by that huge stone formation.

This is tile #93.

I tried to keep as many 2:1 iso lines as possible to serve as a guide. I also hope to show here what 'breaking the grid' means on the outer edges.
 
BPixels, I dunno if this is to scale or not. Keep scale in mind, k.

Abrax, this is not isometric :(. I purposely made stairs in my tile to show you how your tile stairs should be. I really like your idea, its just not iso.

zch, mars hausegen kutgw

Satsume, looks too above ground, imo. Could it edited to something like an underground spring/cavern? A shark-LochNess monster mix type might help too.

I'll now wait for Reo to add a tile, so I can neighbor him >.<

Me thinks good starting tiles will set the tone and mood for this so be pioneers!

This looks gorgeous Jalonso! Congratulations!

No, breaking the edges like that is just for outer (pink) tiles, so it doesn't have a boring edge only...just design. All inner tiles are solid and opaque so other's can blend into them.
Be creative and do your own thing in your tile. Just think more underground. I like your tile but it looks like a beach above ground now.

 I would like tile 86 ;3 !

Looking at all the wonderful tiles submitted so far, I just realized what crap I'm making, I just scrapped the last 3 attempts. This may take a wee bit longer than I thought.