Shockbolt tileset

[PowerWyrm]

Concerning display problems, I'm currently trying to fix the issue for both Win and SDL clients for my variant and it should be easy to port that to V. This involves removing the calls to Term_mark and actually redraw the tile just above and just below the current tile when it's a double-height tile.

[PowerWyrm]

Wow I'm actually struggling with this... There are a ton of side issues when using double-height tiles apart from redrawing tiles and cursor. You need to check if a tile has a picture, if it's double-height, which tiles above and below need to be redrawn... and most important if there is text to redraw instead of pictures (for example when a tile is not mapped in the corresponding prf file and needs to be drawn as an ASCII symbol).

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerWyrm

Wow I'm actually struggling with this... There are a ton of side issues when using double-height tiles apart from redrawing tiles and cursor. You need to check if a tile has a picture, if it's double-height, which tiles above and below need to be redrawn... and most important if there is text to redraw instead of pictures (for example when a tile is not mapped in the corresponding prf file and needs to be drawn as an ASCII symbol).

It might be easier to move away from the tiles-as-characters paradigm and implement z-canvas.c ... ;-)

[PowerWyrm]

Originally Posted by Magnate

It might be easier to move away from the tiles-as-characters paradigm and implement z-canvas.c ... ;-)

z-canvas.c? o_O

Anyway, I managed to fix all issues regarding double height tiles. I could post my resulting code (although it would be the code for my variant) if anyone is interested of fixing that for V...

[PowerWyrm]

Originally Posted by Shockbolt

The tileset is complete, but I can't say if any new additions to creatures/items have been added to the game after the tileset was completed late in 2011.

I discovered while trying the latest nightly build that the tiles for half-elves PCs and some spell effects are missing (they are still mapped to the old DG tiles). Planning to add them in the future?

[Shockbolt]

I understood that half-elves were to be dropped from Angband when I made the tileset, so I didn't spend time on painting them. Instead, use either the elf or the human tiles, the only difference would be pointy ears or not. Besides that, all spell effects should be there.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Shockbolt

I understood that half-elves were to be dropped from Angband when I made the tileset, so I didn't spend time on painting them. Instead, use either the elf or the human tiles, the only difference would be pointy ears or not. Besides that, all spell effects should be there.

The missing spell effects are likely to be incorrect mappings rather than absent tiles, surely? PowerWyrm - which effects were you thinking of?

Shockbolt is right that the plan was (and still is) to remove half-elves. This hasn't been mooted for 3.4, because the idea was to try more ambitious race changes in v4 first. Mapping to the Elf tiles sounds fine to me - after all, you don't play both in the same game.

[fizzix]

I agree that mapping to elves is fine.

[PowerWyrm]

Looking at Tolkien's work, half elves only exist theoretically. Take for example Elrond and Elros. They were given the choice of rejoining either humans or elves, so Elrond can be considered as a full elf and Elros as a human. Then removing half elves sounds logical...

Concerning spell effects, every spell not mapped in the prf file is using the default mapping (0x81:0x80-3) which uses the old tiles. Same for light (0x81:0x9C-F), dark/nether (0x81:0xC7), water (0x81:0xBE + 0x81:0x94-7), plasma (0x81:0xC4 + 0x81:0xA8-B), cold (0x81:0xBF), shards (0x81:0xA8-B).