Freeciv

[frame]

I've started working on an update to the Amplio tileset. I wanted to incorporate some of the excellent tiles from Freeland and do a general update on some of the more dated tiles.

Major changes from Amplio:
* New hills
* New mountains
* New desert
* New tundra
* New oasis
* New forest
* New snow + transitions
* New water transitions
* Cleanup of water<->land transitions
* Many new specials

The overall look is meant to be less saturated and easier on the eye than Amplio. I'm also experimenting with larger special icons.

A screenshot of the current work in progress:


A larger screenshot can be viewed here:
http://feathers.os-tr.net/~hogne/amplio2_2.png

[frame]

Download:
http://feathers.os-tr.net/~hogne/amplio2_060610.tar.gz

Untar it into your freeciv data directory.

Should work with Freeciv 2.2 and trunk.

Updates:
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29.03.10:
* Jungle: Sharpened up and flipped

06.06.10:
* New specials: horse, spice, buffalo and wine
* Fixed glitch in swamp tile and removed some stray pixels in terrain1.png

[Per]

Really awesome

[frame]

Update:

* flipped the jungle as the shadow was in the wrong direction
* Sharpened the jungle as it was way to pale and fuzzy compared to the normal forest

[Munk]

That looks really nice (:

[engla]

I like the big resources a lot!

This makes me wonder, the code for more advanced Terrains did never enter freeciv? It would allow forested hills, desert on hills etc.

[HanduMan]

Great work frame! Looking forward to see it all ready.

[Le Bashar]

Nice job

But I don't succes to load this tileset ingame : no matter what I do (write -t amplio2 in civ client shorcut), I have always the amplio and the "maplio2" don't appair in the tileset-choice windows in game ? What I missed ?

[engla]

Le Bashar, make sure the amplio2 datafiles folder and amplio2.tilespec file are directly inside the ~/.freeciv/ folder, not with some other folder around them.

[Le Bashar]

Yes, my files are at the same place that amplio'one : amplio2.tilespec with all defaut's ones and amplio2 folder near amplio in data directory ?

I haven't error msg, it is just the amplio tileset loaded and nothing else. I can choose the other defaut's tileset, but never a new one. Even if I copy a amplio.tilepsec file and rename it, it don't appear in the choice list.

EDIT : ok, I found, it was only an error of shortcut

[frame]

Some new specials:
* Wine
* Buffalo
* Spice

Updated tarball in post #2

[Grendel]

Very nice.

Some comments:

Specials are perhaps a little too large.
The hills do not seem to match the style of the other tiles. They have a very textured/grainy look while the plains and grassland look smooth. I would try to match the color/lighting of the hills to that of plains or grassland too.
Forests look kind of like cabbages :p, and the rivers seems to be hovering over them. I guess the only way to stop this is to go for a less individual look to the forests and jungles.
Mountains and Jungles are great.
Fish graphic could be a little better.

Consider also making forests in autumn colors. That could look very cool. And maybe you could separate deciduous/coniferous.

Looks great. Keep it up.

[frame]

[hima]

While on the topic of specials: Compared with the new fish special (which looks really cool IMO) the whale special appears like a dwarf.

It'd be great if the whale could be made a bit larger. It's psychological thing, I think - the whale is more valuable, therefore it should also be physically larger!

[HanduMan]