After about two weeks of revisions, I settled on this layout for the unit tiles. It’s called the Empire Deluxe Unit Template (EDUT). After searching through the EDCE manual, doing some in-game tests, and searching through the art assets I determined all of the possible status options I could identify without making any code changes. …
I’ve uploaded the new 128×128 unit tiles for Ground Forces. This tile set represents the template I plan to use for future unit tiles. I used real objects for the outline design and the additional texture is meant to help identify it from a distance. For instance, I decided to move away from the iconic…
After some tinkering I was finally able to get unit tiles to work. I learned a couple of important lessons along the way. But the good news is the new tiles are working, so now it is just a matter of time before I am able to draw them and get them uploaded. More is…
It’s only been a day and already I’ve uncovered the main limitation to unit icons – transparency. It looks like the sprites cannot use an alpha channel and are instead appearing as black. The game is instead trying to auto scale the images and remove the transparent pixels. This is surely a choice of the…
I had some time this week to look into the comments I got regarding the map script. Thankfully, I commented a lot of my code when I started this back in October so it wasn’t that hard to track down the problems and provide some fixes. I’m still leaving it in the script in a…
I’ve added the Basic Explosions Set to EDIBLE. The picture shows three different animation types that this set includes. I’ve updated the animations when attacking, bombarding, and dropping nukes. These are all at 128×128 definition with matches the resolution all my newer tiles are using. The old explosion animations were just too out of place…
I recently performed a series of site upgrades which have cost me a few days of downtime. Also, my real-life job is quite demanding in February so updates are getting noticeably slower. This is likely to continue for a few weeks before I can get back into things. The good news is, this post is…
As I indicated in my last post couple of posts, I decided to pass along a few of the lessons learned I’ve had from some recent artwork I made for a game using the Unity Engine. I’m specifically referring to the work I did with multi-layered road sprites and the 2 bit supply sprites. Both…
As I indicated in my last post, I’m releasing the brown road tiles I’ve been working on despite some reservations. You can find it on EDIBLE. I was not able to get the roads to look exactly the way I wanted, but most of the anomalies are only visible on the closest zoom settings. The…
For the sake of completeness, I’ve decided to do road networks next. I knew this was going to be a painful exercise before I got started. But for the sake of completeness, I wanted to finish out the map-related art in the terrain directory before I moved on to something else more interesting, probably unit…
