Graphics for Freeciv 2.0 and beyond...

[CapTVK]

Ok we're nearing the tophalf. From now on I could use some helping hands or/and critique on what units should be included. The point is to make a clear and consistent tileset for an average player or one that is new to civ in general. Meaning that you would recognize a unit instantly and be pleasing to the eye.

Back to the units...

First up, my explorer. I'll probably choose the penguin for the "positive units" (trade, explore etc...) as comic relief (this is an open source game after all ). So Tux would appear on a camel, as an explorer and as a mascot on the truck.

This will also be my last Tux related character for this tileset. No more penguin jokes.

[CapTVK]

Does anyone have a nice looking alpine unit?

[:) Smiley]

Enjoy!
All work is mine, go ahead and GPL it.

[CapTVK]

Excellent stuff Smiley!


P.S

I love the Art Deco Style.

[CapTVK]

Here's the next update, comments welcome.

[:) Smiley]

Nice, nice, just a few minor spots now:

The lettering on the side of the truck ought to be isometricized.
Some units need shadow
Is there a semi-isometric or full iso APC unit?

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Smiley
Nice, nice, just a few minor spots now:

The lettering on the side of the truck ought to be isometricized.
Some units need shadow
Is there a semi-isometric or full iso APC unit?

Fairline's Bradley?

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Smiley
Nice, nice, just a few minor spots now:

The lettering on the side of the truck ought to be isometricized.
Some units need shadow
Is there a semi-isometric or full iso APC unit?

Shadows, got it.

I've tried making the letters isometric but then the quality of the lettering tends to suffer. At this resolution it's almost impossible to make them look decent.

Just try and imagine the letters are printed slightly tilted

[CapTVK]

I did find this one by Fairline (the MCV-80). Does he also have a Bradley?

[Harry Tuttle]

This was in the Modern Graphics forum:

[jim panse]

Try follow the link to fairline´s gfx forums at CDG (the link is in his sig )

[f.rodrigo]

Hi, I think have here mistake between HiRes from Tim F. Smith and R-Hires from Frederic Rodrigo.
Do you think it's still the time to pixel art ? Now it's time of SVG multi-resolution tiles set like Freeciv Worms! (http://www.msg.com.mx/~arturo/Projects/Freeciv-Worms/) or http://f.rodrigo.free.fr/art/freeciv/freeciv2.php

[Yog-Sothoth]

Also, check out these screenshots for a new tileset in works by yautja . It's made completely in blender and can be rendered at whatever size wanted.

Normal size

128x64
(note that the transitions between the tiles on this one is a resize of the smaller ones, they need to be re-rendered to look decent).

[fairline]

Originally posted by CapTVK
Does anyone have a nice looking alpine unit?

I'm using this for the Finnish skier in Red Front ToT Redux.

He's drawn from scratch, so no worries about infingement of copyrights etc.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by f.rodrigo
Do you think it's still the time to pixel art ? Now it's time of SVG

I think SVG and pixel art both have a place. In fact, I've been helping out Arturo with his worms tileset.

SVG offer a certain styles and abilities (like scaling) that you don't find with pixel art but the advantage of pixel art is that it's easier to draw and give graphics "character". It is amazing how a few pixels suddenly give you that "Yes! That's it!"-moment.

As for scaling, you can do that with pixel art as well. As long as you scale it in 2x, 3x etc... In fact it also gives you a chance to touch them up. Here's an example I made earlier: