WIP [TtA] Throughout the Ages - General Art Discussion

[Skaldarnar]

I think this thread is long overdue, so here we go. I want to discuss all art related stuff in this thread instead of Tech Tree thread.

First thing to start off - seed bag icons! Marcin Sciesinski is planning to use a basic pouch texture and programmatically overlay it with specific seed icons. Here is a first version of the bag, together with overlayed icons in size 32x32 (scaled 1/2) and 24x24 (scaled 3/8).

 

[Skaldarnar]

Second request was for "tilled earth", here's my modifiaction of the default dirt texture (for comparison there is a 3x3 area of tilled earth in the middle, surrounded by plain dirt):​

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[Cervator]

Good stuff, keep it coming!

You did the bucket one, right? The screenie I saw with it gave me an instant flashback to the dye buckets from Ultima Online, many good memories, not a bad reference to have! Showed it to a friend with a vague "catch the reference!" and he immediately asked if it was the dye bucket from UO, hehe. Any inspiration from there or just a happy coincidence?

As I pointed out on IRC we're going to have to take it one step further and actually build functionality to dye stuff, maybe using plant breeding to create rare colors

... of course we need actual stuff to dye first, heh

 

[Marcin Sciesinski]

I should probably post the result images here as well. Here are herbs icons generated based on random colors and their corresponding seed bags. Note that the seed icon on the bag also carries the same color.

 

[Skaldarnar]

Cervator: It's just a lucky coincidence, but I did take some looks on existing wooden buckets They probably all root down to UO in the end