Had a little mess around with your dood trying to breathe a little more life into your idle animation. Exaggerated his breathing and added some extra bounce to him. Take from it what you will, but either way it was really fun messing around with him. Your little guy is really cool!



I must say theres definitely improvement in Mike's run edit, the erratic flailing of the tail seems.. well.. erratic Maybe if you smoothed the motion almost to the point of your tailwag, it would make it look more fluid and would definitely mesh with the edit Mike did to the ponytail.

I feel from your new avatar and the general bad arse'ness of this little guy he could do with a more dynamic run, something less generic.

But either way he's coming along and looking great! keep it up!

To Gil: It is for a Dwarf Fortress visualiser called Stonesense. I realise a simpler style would probably work better, but then again it just a visualiser, and I suppose that it's me making a tileset for something I would like to see. Even if it doesnt fit well I can still call this practice! Since really this is my first attempt at a tile set


To buddy90: Thanks for the ref, if anything it gives me a good sense for palettes, but the constant repitition in the tiling in that is something that I really want to try to avoid.


To setz & Tourist: Honestly... I dont know why I chose blue, I just started with it mocking up, and kinda lost myself I'm really torn between both your palette choices. I like the warmth that setz's gives, but on the other hand I like the cold feeling of the solid rock... so I'm really not sure which way to go. I'll keep messing around with palettes tomorrow.


But for now:





One using Tourists idea for the palette and the other with setz. This was working off the second mockup and also tried to smooth off the floor tiles to try to get to a more natural look, also lost the moss for a more simplistic look. I still think the contrast between faces isnt enough.. so like i said tomorrow is palette messing day!




Quick Update:



Tried smoothing the colour transition and removing the dithering after some concerns were brought up about conflicting style. Also tried upping the contrast between the faces, but I think It's looking too washed out now ><

Feels like this one isn't doing what I want it to So fresh eyes tomorrow and I think its back to the drawing board. I think I'll really try to lose alot of the jutting stones and try for more of a smooth but still rugged look for the faces.

We'll call this technically first time poster

I was struck yesterday to work on a 32x32 mountain tileset for a visualiser and could really use some C&C. I should explain that the visualiser uses a construction method where blocks are seperated by floors vertically, so that every block has a floor above it, and in some instances below it aswell.

I started out with some mock tiles I whipped up and moved onto detailing and cleaning them. Thats where I've struck a dead end. I think I've lost alot of the "rock face" feel that I saw in my mockup. The ramps were a late addition last night just trying to get a feel for how they might look, just thought I'd get that one out of the way. So really I'm asking for a few extra sets of eyes to take a look and tell me what you think.