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Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on July 29, 2007, 07:52:30 AM

Hi,

If anyone is interested i had these tiles lying around, if anyone would want them i could upload them.They are seamless, 4 subtypes.Suitable for Mediterranean theater map, or maybe a MA map, for a change (not sure if costum terrain tile textures are allowed).


(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/tilescr.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: Ghastly on July 29, 2007, 09:09:59 AM

As I read the "rules", new textures would be allowed.  But if you look at the default ones, you can see that it would probably be non-trivial to create the 16 quadrant variants and make the appropriate associated clutter changes.

I'd considered making my own snow tiles, but I  think I'm going to hold off on doing so for now for the terrain I'm trying to build - as much as green mountain-tops bug me.

Maybe someone more graphically oriented than I would find it easier than I though.

But thanks - maybe as we get more of this kind of stuff built we could archive it to MrMidis for future use.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on July 29, 2007, 12:35:37 PM

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/tilescr2.jpg)

Here you can see the transition between grassy rock (or "snow" in te) to grass tile.Also in Mediterranean.Hmm, i think i'll make whole pack in that style.

Half way there Ghastly:)

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on July 29, 2007, 01:46:35 PM

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/tilescr32.jpg)

Forest textures added.

Title: Tiles
Post by: mrmidi on July 29, 2007, 04:00:29 PM

Hey duh...
tried to send you a PM about palm trees but your box is full... ;-)


Mid

Title: Tiles
Post by: 64kills on July 30, 2007, 02:40:38 PM

yea i need you to help me

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 01, 2007, 01:27:38 AM

Mrmidi, my pm box is ok now.

64kills, I am sorry, but I don't make maps for others, or very rarely.There are some great tutorials that can get you started, then you can build the maps just the way you wan them.


As for the tiles, finished adding clutter.Don't let those trees scare you, fps are great on my very old machine.
I will upload those files soon, so if anyone wants to use them on their maps, be that h2h or anything else.Only problem is their size, with these 18 textures (subtypes and ovly files included) they make the res file up to huge 10 mb.But you can resize them.

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/tileclut1.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/tileclut2.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 01, 2007, 03:38:39 AM

Just tested resizing to 256x256.Res size goes down to 1 mb, and what is amazing, there is almost no loss of texture quality, I barely saw the difference.

Title: Tiles
Post by: NHawk on August 01, 2007, 05:36:52 AM

Just for experiment sake try taking it down to 128x128 and see what you get. ;)

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 01, 2007, 05:42:02 AM

Hosting the map with 128x128 textures right now.Only 500 kb.Screen:

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/ahss15.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: NHawk on August 01, 2007, 05:48:58 AM

If you didn't know and if it still gives the detail you want, you can go all the way down to 16x16. But that low would probably be way to low...can you say "checker board"? :)

Title: Tiles
Post by: 64kills on August 01, 2007, 10:08:07 AM

croduh will you tell me what one of your arena name is for gv's:(

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 02, 2007, 09:27:05 AM

Tiles and textures are in one zip file "groundtiles.zip" on my site now.
Textures are 1024x1024 pixels, you can resize them.

-Mrmidi, my pm box is empty now

-64kills, most of my maps are ok for gvs.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 15, 2007, 05:28:00 AM

I added snow tiles on my webspace, 1024 size, you can resize them.
http://croduh.mrmidi.net/

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/tilessnow.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 15, 2007, 07:55:05 AM

Not that files and textures in this thread are only and ONLY for use in new maps.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 20, 2007, 10:50:55 AM

The screenshot of snow tiles didn't work:

(http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/6025/tilessnowbb8.jpg)



I have added 2 water tiles on my site, but i still have to work with land transitions.

North seas water:

(http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/1723/nortseaoz0.jpg)


Tropical/Mediterranean:

(http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/9422/tropseapj5.jpg)





http://croduh.mrmidi.net/

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on August 20, 2007, 11:16:25 AM

Thanks for the tropical sea tile. One question, do I need a special transition tile since the last water tile I had made by you (Before the new version with beach tiles came out) will not work with this new version unless I alter the beach tiles. I however do not want to do this given my experience with graphics and editing textures / tiles.

Title: Tiles
Post by: McFarland on August 20, 2007, 04:51:26 PM

Nice work, these are great. Just one question, how do you resize these?

Title: Tiles
Post by: USRanger on August 20, 2007, 05:33:06 PM

Any photo editing program. Even MS Paint.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 21, 2007, 07:25:07 AM

Transitions for tropical sea is finished, just re-download the tropical sea zip file from site.

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/transitionswater1.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: Bruv119 on August 21, 2007, 07:58:25 AM

wow on the water tiles!!!

Title: Tiles
Post by: Kazaa on August 21, 2007, 08:32:18 AM

How can I apply these tiles to the MA, what file do I need to save these under ?

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 21, 2007, 08:46:35 AM

You can only use them to build them on your own maps.They can't be used in MA or any other arenas or maps.

Glad you like them:)

Title: Tiles
Post by: Kazaa on August 21, 2007, 08:52:20 AM

bump this for Skuzzy.

This is what the ocean in AH needs to look like, atm it's way to dark:aok

Title: Tiles
Post by: spiricom on August 21, 2007, 11:01:56 AM

:O :aok

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on August 21, 2007, 11:10:01 AM

Quote

Originally posted by croduh
Transitions for tropical sea is finished, just re-download the tropical sea zip file from site.

Thanks.:aok

Title: Tiles
Post by: spiricom on August 21, 2007, 12:20:16 PM

I am hosting my 'Hyperborea FFA' room atm.

It contains all of croduh's textures including the clouds.

(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6010/ahss14copymy0.jpg)

:aok

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on August 21, 2007, 02:13:17 PM

Nice terrain there, greyscale or pure handwork?

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 21, 2007, 02:25:52 PM

Stopped by your room today, looks great, you even used clutter I uploaded:)

I'm all out of ideas what to do next.Kinda depressing.

Title: Tiles
Post by: BlauK on August 21, 2007, 03:19:09 PM

Start optimizing it to MA / SEA levels (poly counts, texture sizes, etc) while keeping looking as good as it looks now ;)

I don't know how big the difference really is, big or small, but maybe there could be some challenge for your skills???

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 21, 2007, 03:44:04 PM

Well anyone who wants to use these textures can easily resize them.Quality is pretty good down to 256x256.

Only drastic change is the res file size.

Title: Tiles
Post by: McFarland on August 21, 2007, 06:35:54 PM

Quote

Originally posted by USRanger
Any photo editing program. Even MS Paint.

I tried doing this, I went to attributes and changed size to 256x256, but on the ones with land (transitions), it cuts off all but the top right corner. It doesn't just make the whole thing shrink down to a smaller size. Do you know how I would do this with MS Paint or MS Picture It 7.0?

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 22, 2007, 05:49:12 AM

Are you sure you are resizing all files, including _a ones.
Remember to change colors to 256 and on _a files to 256 grayscale.

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on August 22, 2007, 09:37:18 AM

That's not his issue, when he re sizes the files using MS Paint, he can't re size the actual image, he can only cut off parts of it as MS paint reduces the frame not the picture. And after 3 years of experience with MS Paint, I still have found no way to re size the image by typing in the desired pixels and letting the program do the work.

McFarland, your best bet is going to be IRFanView, it's free and the download is located on MrMidi's website for AHII TE tools and accessories.

Title: Tiles
Post by: NHawk on August 22, 2007, 10:10:32 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Denholm
That's not his issue, when he re sizes the files using MS Paint, he can't re size the actual image, he can only cut off parts of it as MS paint reduces the frame not the picture. And after 3 years of experience with MS Paint, I still have found no way to re size the image by typing in the desired pixels and letting the program do the work....

I guess you need almost 20 years experience....

Image... Stretch/Skew...stretch by equal percentages. A 1024 x 1024 bitmap stretched to 50% in both directions gives you a 512 x 512 bitmap.

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on August 22, 2007, 11:57:28 AM

Yes I suppose, I rarely go "exploring" with menu features.

Title: Tiles
Post by: USRanger on August 22, 2007, 03:33:19 PM

Gimp is another free and good one. I recommend it. Google it & check it out.

Title: Tiles
Post by: McFarland on August 22, 2007, 04:12:37 PM

Thanks, this has been very helpfull. I guess I need to go around the features in MS Paint sometime. :)

Title: Tiles
Post by: mrmidi on August 22, 2007, 05:45:33 PM

Infranview is a great one to it's on my download page...

Title: Tiles
Post by: Easyscor on August 22, 2007, 06:08:56 PM

MS Paint has many useful, and simple features that allow you to pound something out in minutes.

"Select All" / Grab the handles and drag to resize your bitmap while watching the size numbers at the bottom of the window on the tool bar.

Most people don't realize Shift+G while zoomed x 6 or 8 will display a pixel grid. It's all in the help files. :rolleyes:

Still, it's only one layer, with limited tools and the color pallet at 256 colors will drive you crazy until you increase it, but nothing beats MS Paint for working fast. Add i_view, a little GIMP and you can do almost anything.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on August 30, 2007, 11:55:17 AM

I see many have downloaded these textures and I actually saw a few new h2h maps using these textures.

I will now make the full set of these textures, each tile type different, in these "summer" or "snow" themes

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on October 14, 2007, 04:07:59 AM

Added some new textures to the first pack, still not uploaded though.Clutter layout will be included.

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/farms1.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/farms2.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: BlauK on October 14, 2007, 05:27:03 AM

Great looking textures Croduh :aok

Title: Tiles
Post by: rogerdee on October 14, 2007, 06:18:35 AM

Croduh are you working on a complete set of tiles?

if you are are you going to submitt them in to skuzzy to see if they can be added to the game for use in future main arena maps?

Skuzzy said they were looking for new terrain tiles for different seasons and aeras a long time ago,maybe its worth a shot

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on October 15, 2007, 12:40:04 PM

New set of textures completed along with clutter(still needs some fixing though).
Rock houses just fit in great into Mediterranean tiles.

Btw, last picture is from my SEA map in works;)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/farms4.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/farms5.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/farms3.jpg)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/farms6.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on October 17, 2007, 04:50:06 AM

Tiles uploaded.All textures are 1024x1024 pixels, feel free to resize them.

Look under Mediterranean tiles.

http://croduh.mrmidi.net/

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on October 17, 2007, 09:04:57 AM

Very nice! I enjoy the slope on the hills in the background.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on November 17, 2007, 08:10:03 AM

New water tiles added (pack 5).Transitions included.Textures are 1024x1024 but you can resize them.

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/newwatrer.jpg)

http://croduh.mrmidi.net/

Title: Tiles
Post by: Bruv119 on November 21, 2007, 01:40:40 AM

now that sure looks pretty.


Can't you send them into HTC so we can have a beach party over Christmas.

Make the Aussies feel at home.

The current water is just plain smurfy and my biggest grief about the graphics in game at the moment.


Bruv
~S~

Title: Tiles
Post by: WarLord on November 22, 2007, 11:11:35 AM

nice textures!!!!

but i have a little question.
how do i add the textures in the game???

Title: Tiles
Post by: McFarland on November 22, 2007, 09:30:36 PM

You make a map using them.

Title: Tiles
Post by: SuBWaYCH on November 22, 2007, 10:13:55 PM

Sticky thread please.

Regards,
Subway

Title: Tiles
Post by: Denholm on November 26, 2007, 12:23:36 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Bruv119
Can't you send them into HTC so we can have a beach party over Christmas.

Make the Aussies feel at home.

The current water is just plain smurfy and my biggest grief about the graphics in game at the moment.

He could however if HTC wanted them they would've told him a long time ago.

Title: Tiles
Post by: rogerdee on November 27, 2007, 11:28:24 AM

Skuzzy said a long time ago they are open to people submitting new terrain tiles  for different seasons ect ect.
BUT so far no one  has sent anything in.

Title: Tiles
Post by: Easyscor on November 27, 2007, 01:15:49 PM

Time to put this one to bed.

rogerdee on 10-23-2006 started the rumor about htc wanting tiles for the seasons in his post in this thread (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=190439&highlight=seasons) and it's been often repeated since then, even by me.

Skuzzy came in 8-31-2007 and basicly shut it down in this thread (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=213495&highlight=seasons), but I guess you could say he left the door open in case someone does something unexpected.

Title: Tiles
Post by: croduh on February 24, 2008, 09:04:38 AM

I started working on a new map(guess the theme by yourself), and i am in the process of making textures for it.I might upload them later.
Hope someones finds them useful or learns from them.

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/soccer1.jpg)

The textures go nicely with this skin and objects i made for previous maps:)

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/soccer2.jpg)

Title: Tiles
Post by: MotleyCH on February 24, 2008, 09:16:22 AM

Wow:O :O :aok :O

Title: Re: Tiles
Post by: croduh on April 07, 2008, 09:36:10 AM

Uploaded jungle texture pack, currently only 2 sets of textures (with according subtiles) in zip file.

(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z144/croduh/jungltils.jpg)

Pack6 : http://croduh.mrmidi.net/