Devlog Weekly News - TR Run Progress and Art, KAG Modding

I personally prefer the new color scheme, but I do think yagger's idea is pretty nifty. Is it even possible to do that?

 

Well I do like both images now, but what looked more impressive from TR to me was the art itself. I think Geti manages pixel art better with low-fi, as I once said, the less the better.. The new colours make me think the game will be way more complex than it is now, and I like that too.

 

@Fellere825 @Yagger
It should be noted that the new art is in the "base palette", whereas the old art is in the "forest palette" - we'll still be doing biome specific colour remapping but we need base art to work off. The palette in particular has been expanded in the new art, which I guess might dull the "edges" a little, but gives a lot more room for things like shading and team colours. We can and will still have some darker and lighter maps, but there'll be less room for visual (mis)interpretation (like "why is this rock floating?", to quote a tester).

An "oldschool" mode with palettes that clip down the number of colours might be possible but things like team colours and new assets will mean that things aren't exactly the same - the higher spec art will require different framecounts on each animation, and the tiles are being reworked to include more decoration and more autotiling potential that wouldn't necessarily work with fewer colours (potentially just harming readability).

Re: "lo fi" vs "hi fi" - we're talking 8 vs 16 colours, its an extra bit per pixel but it's not exactly a state of the art colour space no matter how you spin it ;)

@RadioActive , Skinney would be the one to ask about that :)

 

There's http://doc.kag2d.com/ but it's not comprehensive - its a real bore to update :) most can be figured by trial and error or the name (eg i wonder what getTeamNum() does? pretty obvious) but some cant. For things you'd like prioritised, feel free to post. Some sort of general thread for that could be good.

 

The online docs have some stuff. Also if you visit the irc channel belagerung has some extra docs and can help you find functions. .find <function> look for functions with keywords .man <functionname> to get a description and list of arguments. With regards to known buglist there is such a thing in the Mods folder although it's fairly limited. I'll probably be making a post sometime soon asking for peoples requests and ideas etc. I will also probably work on more/better documentation soonish.

 

Highlighted the relevant parts, Klok. He's basically had to re-do all the art and then some, not just tweaking colours.

 

Just to hammer bint's superior observation home, these aren't quite the same:

As a bonus - the current iteration is on the left for kicks - if you look a little closer, you'll notice things like team colour on characters, different foliage tiles, and an overall doubling in colours from 8 to 16.

While bint has hit you right in the "maybe look closer before making posts like this", this is actually how the different, biome specific palettes are made, more or less; taking an image rendered with the default palette, including the colour remapping file, and doing global colour operations - with some per-colour tweaking after that. Here's the current iteration of the forest colours on the new art:


Take care :)

e: also partly ninja'd by fbb.