Graphic Update?

[Tellius]

Hi,

It seems the AE edition is coming close to completion, so I'm probably already too late with this one. Has anyone considered if it's possible to polish up the graphics? Nothing fancy, maybe it's possible to give tiles a higher resolution - of course a new tileset would have to be made, but when I see how (seemingly) easy E puts out new versions of his tileset, I think that wouldn't pose a problem. The 'look and feel' of the game wouldn't have to change at all, I'm just thinking of the same look and feel with a bit more detail.

Just a though, but what do I know, I just read the first 50 pages of a C++ book and that's basicly all I know of programming so far - not much, I know So don't smack me around if what I wrote here makes no sense what so ever...

Tellius

[Ekmek]

Tellius,

glad you checked out a C++ book. You probably know more now than I did when I first tried ctp2 coding!

As for polishing up the graphics not sure what you mean by polishing up. Ctp2 is already 24 bit to Civ3's 8 bit. My Tiles are hugely borrowed from SnOOpy's civ3 terrain so most of my graphics are 8 bit (although where I brush and modified I'm sure its 24).

But if you are looking to code into the graphics area, that is one spot that few of us have looked into. I'm ot sure if anyone has even thought of modifying the resolution.

But if you are looking to clean up the graphics I'm for making the game less cartoonish which was my intent behind the civ3units I converted to replace ctp2 ones, the civ3 cities, and the terrain I felt civ3 made them look more realistic.

[Maquiladora]

If all youre doing is replacing the graphics of existing terrain then you just need to learn how to use Tile Edit, then its some work editing your graphics and importing them back in.

Of course if youre asking if anyone else wants to do it, id say it would probably already be done if someone wanted to.

My particular worry with that kind of update is, like you said, would the look and feel change too much, that existing units dont fit well on the new looking terrain. This isnt a problem with E's civ3 tiles because he's made civ3 units aswell.

[Tellius]

Resolution

Hi,

I knew CtP2 was 24bit - did NOT know however C3 was only 8 bit, this surprised me.

I've been thinking a bit about this issue. You can already set the resolution of the game in the options screen. The higher the resolution, the less 'granulated' the game looks. I was thinking of putting more info, more 'bits' so to say, in each tile, but I don't think that's even possible, unless I would be able to change the 'size' of the tiles. I hope I can find the graphics part in the source code, maybe I can muck around a bit - although I think a crash to desktop will be the most likely result.

Tellius

[Ekmek]

the director to start is here:

svn/trunk/ctp2_code/gfx/

online it is here

https://ctp2.darkdust.net/svn/trunk/ctp2_code/gfx/

but yeah it entails increase the size of the graphics. The pixel sizes are easy to find in TILESYS

https://ctp2.darkdust.net/svn/trunk/ctp2_code/gfx/tilesys/

but I recommend having some test files in that pixel format up and running before you try to change the values it will immediaely crash the game I believe.

the other thing is that I'm not sure tileedit can handle different sizes. but thats just a guess.

lastly, I recall someone else interested in tile stuff but it was about 2 years ago. here's some links for info:

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108782

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111035

[Tellius]

Thanks for the links and tips E!

Tellius

[Tellius]

Thanks for the links and tips E!

Tellius