What tiles do you use?

[takkaria]

This is for tile users. I'm curious to hear whether anyone uses the old 8x8 tiles.

[fyonn]

I'd tell you if I knew. I use the 32x32 tiles that come with the game. are those the gervais tiles? not sure?

I do think there's a bug in them somewhere though. traps frequently take on other tile gfx, almost as those there's some tiles missing.

I mentioned it here.

dave

[stabbo]

I just use ASCII, tiles don't look right.

[TJS]

I use old tiles. I really like them.

There's a different character for each monster type and they are small and simple enough that you can see clearly what everything is when zoomed right out. I find the other tilesets far too busy.

I don't ever confuse one monster for another which seems to be a problem with the other graphical methods.

It's one of the reasons that I don't really play variants since I can never quite compute what is going on using just ASCII.

[ekolis]

I voted ASCII, but not because it's my one true love... I just don't like the default tilesets for Angband - well, David Gervais' tiles are pretty good, but they're just so BIG, and Angband for some reason calls for more stuff to be visible on the screen than other roguelikes (Crawl, Nethack)... maybe dungeon levels in Angband are bigger (definitely bigger than Nethack, not sure about Crawl), or the GUI and text don't mesh up nicely unless the fonts are the right size, or something...

[Fendell Orcbane]

I use 32x32 for FA, but for V I use 16x16 since the 32x32 won't show some monsters at all.

[will_asher]

I use ascii on my older computer which doesn't show tiles well, but when on a computer that shows them well, I use the old tiles (some of which aren't so old in DJA because I added them).
I like the 32x32 tiles, but I can't stand having so little of the dungeon map on the screen.

[buzzkill]

I use 32x32 if I can. I tend to avoid variants that don't support tiles. ASCII just doesn't cut it for me.

Originally Posted by Fendell Orcbane

I use 32x32 for FA, but for V I use 16x16 since the 32x32 won't show some monsters at all.

Are you talking about koblod archers (and a few other) on a Mac system?

[Whelk]

I usually don't like tiles, because it's harder for me to tell what's what at a quick glance. I just started trying Crawl today, though, and started on tile mode. Fun game.

[ThunderToads]

I like ASCII for old-school goodness, but with solid walls.