Dusty, that cliff-rooftop transition is excellent. This sure does look pretty exciting!  

Posted by Dusty

Things are gonna start lookin' a little bit different from now on.

I hope that isn't being done dynamically with showimg as that would surely destroy those poor iOS device GPUs (unless Stefan coded to mostly use CPU which would be worse).

As for limited flower colours, the tileset is limited in size so sacrifices have to be made. It would be nice if multiple tilesets could be easily added in a non-hack way but eh...

NPCs could be used but unfortunately, that adds overhead as NPCs effectively become objects: causing CPU overhead from scripting. A few wouldn't cause an issue but something like a garden? Would be nice if you could specify notascript; which would mean it doesn't get included in any scripting processes...

Thinking on this, if you had a system which reads a file (or a script in the level) which contains an image name, x and y coordinates and uses this to place showimgs of all the images on screen: it might be somewhat feasible?

I'm not in a position to test and dunno and what point it would become beneficial (if at all)  

Posted by Crag

Why not just more than one color flower D;

Well, because more flowers would totally ruin graal...  

Nice, I love it!  

Posted by Twinny

I hope that isn't being done dynamically with showimg as that would surely destroy those poor iOS device GPUs (unless Stefan coded to mostly use CPU which would be worse).

Of course it's not dynamic

Flowers are possible, but not sure if the benefit is quite worth the effort right now. Tileset space isn't that bad since I have cleaned up the tileset and removed most of the worthless tiles(lava and such).  

Posted by Dusty

Flowers are possible, but not sure if the benefit is quite worth the effort right now. Tileset space isn't that bad since I have cleaned up the tileset and removed most of the worthless tiles(lava and such).

I always wanted to recreate Donau from my favourite PS1 game

Some day......some day  

Posted by Dusty

...removed most of the worthless tiles(lava and such).

Farewell, 3 year old dreams of a volcano level! Not too knowledgeable about tilesets and such, but this could hopefully be a possibility in the future someday. I remember brainstorming ideas in 2010 and this was one thought that came to my mind, how cool and unique it would be.

If not, its probably for the better. I'm not in a position to accurately weigh pros and cons...  

Posted by Winter

Farewell, 3 year old dreams of a volcano level! Not too knowledgeable about tilesets and such, but this could hopefully be a possibility in the future someday. I remember brainstorming ideas in 2010 and this was one thought that came to my mind, how cool and unique it would be.

If not, its probably for the better. I'm not in a position to accurately weigh pros and cons...

I'm sure eventually we might come to the point where we need lava-themed stuff, but the default lava wouldn't suffice. Also the goal is to have exterior and interior tiles separated as much as possible.  

Love it. Gives Graal that warm feeling ^~^  

lol why did Rufus delete two of Princess Becca's posts?  

Posted by Aaron - Taevin

lol why did Rufus delete two of Princess Becca's posts?

She doesn't post anything of value so it's not like there is a loss.

[Note]: She was posting a stupid TL;DR gif all over the place.  

The sky chapel looks pretty damn nice  

Posted by Rufus

As the winter is dragging on (still snowing here WTF) I figured I would post a preview of the coming spring.



It's still a work in progress. Big up to Dusty and the two new level designers though! I love it.

Now it feels like Classic! Not an overly detailed look, just nice,simple, and easy on the eyes unlike the winter tileset. Your levels team has done an amazing job!  

Posted by Twinny

I hope that isn't being done dynamically with showimg as that would surely destroy those poor iOS device GPUs (unless Stefan coded to mostly use CPU which would be worse).

That was my first thought when seeing it, too. Looks good though.  

Nice, but might wanna add different flower colors too would like nice.